The newest Hen Cock launch has arrived: Island Rooster, a Kentucky straight rye (95% rye, 5% barley) completed in Caribbean rum casks for six months. No age data on the bottom spirit, nevertheless.
The outcomes are decidedly unusual — they usually distinctly lean towards the rum facet of the fence. The nostril may be very floral, virtually to the exclusion of the rest except for barrel char. It’s a troublesome word to position — lilac and lavender, then an extracted molasses word. The palate is equally odd and barely off-putting: very candy and floral, with a cane syrup word laid on thick. The whiskey — simple to neglect it’s a whiskey, not rum — is a bit gritty because it develops on the tongue, extra molasses displaying alongside vanilla, brown butter, and a creosote word that adheres to the roof of the mouth for ages. The end concludes with a extra tropical rum character combined with an oxidized wine word, virtually sherry-like at occasions — and all laid on a bit thick ultimately.
There’s a ton happening on this bottle — and each the primary and ultimate calculus land far an excessive amount of in rum’s wheelhouse for me to get very enthusiastic about it.
95 proof.
B- / $200 / chickencockwhiskey.com
Hen Cock Island Rooster Rye
$200
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