High West Rocky Mountain Rye 16 Year Old

High West Campfire

Gift sample. I vaguely remembered hearing something about this prior to tasting it, but I decided to just dive in without hitting the Googles. I went back to the Google in the middle of the tasting session to confirm my suspicions. Nose: Lots of dusty sandalwood (fine quality). You really can get a bourbony, rye, and peat note. [This is when I...

Score 89/100

High West Silver Whiskey Western Oat

Assay #11F01, Bottle 1068. Once again, I look at High West to try out another whiskey category: this time, the un-aged oak whiskey (admittedly, a rather limited category, but hey! It's available in Québec). Drunk neat. Nose: Very powerful, and also very different from any whisky I've tried before: it actually reminds me a bit of white tequila. I...

Score 78/100

High West Midwinter's Night Dram Act 7 Scene 5

A highly coveted release, it's essentially High West rendez-vous rye with additional aging in French oak Port Barrels **Nose:** Oak forward, red fruits, a touch of plasticine, brown sugar, baking spices. A bit of sappy wood, clay, plums & cardboard. It's a rather tight nose, takes a while to reveal itself. With a bit of water it teases out...

Score 83/100

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