The fast-growing, woman-led model whiskey model Uncle Nearest has introduced three new everlasting expressions to its nationwide portfolio earlier than the top of 2022.
These are: Uncle Nearest Straight Rye Whiskey, Uncle Nearest Single Barrel Black Label and Uncle Nearest Single Barrel Rye.
Uncle Nearest Straight Rye, now obtainable, is the model’s first new whiskey obtainable to buy on-line and at retailers throughout the nation for the reason that 2019 launch of its 1884 Small Batch Whiskey.
This 100-proof straight rye was put collectively by Victoria Eady Butler, Grasp Blender and great-great-granddaughter of the model’s namesake, Nearest Inexperienced. (Within the nineteenth century, Nearest turned the primary African American grasp distiller on document within the U.S., and mentored a younger Jack Daniel, together with classes on the charcoal-filtering course of — a specialty of Inexperienced’s.)
On the palate of this rye is mild vanilla cream, caramelized sugar and spice of rye, the corporate says.
As a consequence of challenges round rising rye in Tennessee, the place Uncle Nearest operates, this straight rye whiskey originated in Canada. It then aged in New York for at least 4 years earlier than shifting all the way down to Tennessee, the place it rested in used Uncle Nearest barrels for added maturation.
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Motivation for this new product comes from a chunk of Inexperienced’s previous.
“After I was doing my analysis on Nearest Inexperienced, I got here throughout a handwritten letter from President William Taft,” says Fawn Weaver, Founder and CEO of Uncle Nearest. “The letter was dated Could 16, 1911, and was addressed to his U.S. Secretary of Battle, Jacob M. Dickinson, thanking him for sending his favourite rye whiskey ‘of the Lincoln County selection.’ This letter led me to consider rye whiskeys had been being made on this space, so after I discovered that letter there was little question in my thoughts a straight rye whiskey would at some point be added to our portfolio of whiskeys.”
Uncle Nearest Straight Rye Whisky is accessible to buy for $59 at Nearest Inexperienced Distillery in Shelbyville, TN. It’s going to even be obtainable on-line, and roll out nationally all through November.
The whiskey might be adopted by the discharge of Uncle Nearest Single Barrel Black Label ($79) on Black Friday, Nov. 25, and Uncle Nearest Single Barrel Rye ($89) on December 15. These rollouts are a part of the model’s “12 Weeks of Christmas,” which incorporates particular promotions for Uncle Nearest followers, comparable to bottle signings on the distillery, and limited-time choices just like the Legacy Assortment Final Reward Set, containing all seven Uncle Nearest whiskeys, obtainable to buy on the distillery the weekend of December 22.
Following the launch of the Single Barrel Black Label at Nearest Inexperienced Distillery, will probably be solely obtainable on the distillery and on Reservebar.com beginning on Monday, November 28 via the primary half of 2023. The Single Barrel Rye will observe swimsuit.
