The Oxford Artisan Distillery has unveiled its seventh rye whisky, Simple Ryder. The summer-y mix is a wedding of 9 specifically chosen casks chosen by Grasp Distiller Francisco Rosa to attain a clean but intricate trip by way of the model’s distinct heritage grains and distilling practices.
The distillery produced Simple Ryder whisky utilizing heritage grains grown by the distillery’s regenerative and natural farming companions. These grains require no pesticides, fungicides, or herbicides, supporting sustainability and biodiversity of their fields.
Every cask chosen for this expression went by way of a special journey, from the start line on the cooperage, to its dimension, the filling power, its age, and the warehouse during which it rested. After three to 4 years of maturation the brand new make flavours have diverged in to 9 totally different spirits all with one thing in frequent. This mix of ryes showcases all these harmonies coming collectively, elevating the complexity and nuances of every cask.
From the American oak of various toasts, chars and origins, to the Moscatel Roxo cask, along with the grain and distillery character because the spine, the oak complexity merges with the candy and recent flavours from the Portuguese Moscatel fortified wine cask from Setúbal. (N.B Full checklist of cask data is given under.) The result’s a whisky which is creamy with notes of pastry, chocolate, refreshing spice and a pronounced savoury character.
“Our flavour retains evolving and slowly exhibiting heritage grains’ true character as we proceed our journey by way of time and flavour, rooted in our Oxfordshire environment,” famous Rosa. “When our grains evolve beneath fermentation with our in-house cultures, a stunning butter dimension involves life which is then influenced by distillation and maturation, it deviates from custard or pastry to white chocolate, or bathroom butter as an earthy (field-like) expression of the grain. On this launch, there’s a pronounced savoury character on account of the sandy soils from Oxford mixed with the sandy soils by the ocean in Setúbal.”
Bottled at 50% ABV, Oxford Artisan Distillery Simple Ryder is priced at £55 for 70cl and is the distillery’s largest run to this point, with 2,782 bottles now out there by way of the distillery’s web site and specialist whisky retailers.
In Might, The Oxford Artisan Distillery unveiled Artful Little Rye.
