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Bondstone
Double Oak Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey

Category: Straight Rye Whiskey

Date Tasted:
Country: USA
Alcohol: 50%
90 Points
Gold Medal
Exceptional
$45

Bondstone
Double Oak Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey

Category: Straight Rye Whiskey

Date Tasted:
Country: USA
Alcohol: 50%
Medium golden amber color. Aromas and flavors of brown sugar, brandied cherries, chocolate hazelnut paste, and sourdough bread with a round, vibrant, dry medium-to-full body and a warming, intriguing, medium-long finish with notes of brown sugar, chocolate and mint, grilled herbs, dried cherry and hazelnut, and caramel and all spice. A classic and dialed in Rye Whiskey that will make a damn fine Old Fashioned or Manhattan.

Tasting Info

Spirits Glass Style: Spicy & Complex
Aroma Aroma: brown sugar, brandied cherries, chocolate hazelnut paste, and sourdough bread
Taste Flavor: Same as aromas with notes of brown sugar, chocolate and mint, grilled herbs, dried cherry and hazelnut, and caramel and all spice
Smoothness Smoothness: Warming
Enjoy Enjoy: in cocktails, neat, on the rocks and with cigars
Cocktail Cocktails: Sazerac, Old Fashioned, Manhattan
Bottom Line Bottom Line: A classic and dialed in Rye Whiskey that will make a damn fine Old Fashioned or Manhattan.

Straight Rye Whiskey

Spirits Glass Glencairn Canadian Amber.jpg
Serve in a Glencairn Ganadian Whisky Glass
In order for a product to be categorized as a Straight Rye Whiskey, the following must be true:

Mash bill must be made up of a minimum of 51% rye.
Aged a minimum of two years.
May not contain any flavors or colors.
All of the liquid in the bottle must be distilled in the same state.