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Widow Jane

Widow Jane
Apple Wood Rye Cask-Finished Blended Straight Rye Whiskey Batch #28

Category: Cask-Finished Rye Whiskey

Date Tasted:
Country: USA
Alcohol: 46.5%
93 Points
Gold Medal
Exceptional
$49

Widow Jane
Apple Wood Rye Cask-Finished Blended Straight Rye Whiskey Batch #28

Category: Cask-Finished Rye Whiskey

Date Tasted:
Country: USA
Alcohol: 46.5%
Gold color. Aromas and flavors of cinnamon apple, vanilla and cedar, apple cider doughnut, and nutmeg with a velvety, lively, dry medium body and a tingling, interesting, medium-length finish with notes of apple bread pudding, pork loin and apple sauce, and sesame and nougat. Like drinking a heavily spiced apple pie with a Whiskey flambée.

Tasting Info

Spirits Glass Style: Spicy & Complex
Aroma Aroma: cinnamon apple, vanilla and cedar, apple cider doughnut, and nutmeg
Taste Flavor: Same as aromas with notes of apple bread pudding, pork loin and apple sauce, and sesame and nougat
Smoothness Smoothness: Tingling
Enjoy Enjoy: neat, in cocktails, on the rocks and with cigars
Cocktail Cocktails: Sazerac, Old Fashioned, Manhattan
Bottom Line Bottom Line: Like drinking a heavily spiced apple pie with a Whiskey flambée.

The Producer

Widow Jane Distillery

The Producer
218 Conover Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231
USA
1 347-225-0130

Cask-Finished Rye Whiskey

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Serve in a Glencairn Ganadian Whisky Glass
Rye Whisky must contain a minimum of 51% rye grain, be distilled at less than 80% ABV (160 proof) and be aged for a minimum of two years in new charred barrels. A small amount of straight Rye whiskey is bottled and marketed, but most of the industry production is blended into other whiskies to give them additional character and structure. Canadians frequently refer to their whisky as "Rye," though it is in fact made primarily from corn or wheat. A Cask-Finished Rye Whiskey will undergo additional maturation in one or more barrels, the previous contents of which contribute to the aromas and flavors of the final product. Examples include but are not limited to used Rum, Cognac, Port, Sherry, Madeira, Stout, and maple barrels.