High West Rendezvous Rye

High West Rendezvous Rye

High West Distillery in Park City, Utah, is the first distillery to be licensed in Utah since Prohibition. The High West distillery products have not yet aged sufficiently to be commercially marketed. The current Rendezvous Rye Whiskey, named after the annual summer trade gatherings in that area during the 19th century, combines a 6 yr old 95%...

Score 93/100

High West Rendezvous Rye

Batch 48, bottle #772. I picked up this bottle because it is the cheapest straight rye whiskey available in Québec, by virtue of being the only one as well. After trying it, I feel I might have to try other to get a better pictures of what a rye whiskey is. I guess a road trip to Ottawa will be in order in 2012. Drunk neat. Nose: A clean nose of...

Score 92/100

High West Rendezvous Rye

High West Rendezvous, distilled in Park City, Utah, is a blend of two straight rye whiskies: a six year-old (95% rye, 5% barley malt) and a 16 year-old (80% rye, 10 % barley malt, and 10% corn). It is not chill-filtered. I sampled from batch 44, the current batch available at liquor stores in Québec (and, presumably, elsewhere), at a restaurant in...

Score 89/100

High West Rendezvous Rye

batch 13C19 Nose: Smells fresh, on honey, rye grain, fir needles crushed, mint, then an assortment of some baking spices with cinnamon and dill/salt. Unabashedly rye. Toast and spun sugar. A little sweet and built to be enjoyable. New and unworn leather belt from Hermes. More rye spice and something off-sweet and spicy - a ginger chew? Palate:...

Score 87/100