The origins of Bourbon! With a few worthy exceptions, Bourbon wouldn’t be much of the Whiskey Star it is today if rye –the grain- did not give it its flavor backbone. Would it even exist if our forefathers did not make liquor from a rye mash to begin with? Indeed rye whiskey was first in our cups, and the spicy taste of this hardy grain only gave way to the softer corn-based Bourbon to come back with a vengeance in recent years. Rye whiskey is not so easy to come by nowadays, and many rye benchmark bottles are on strict allocation. Taste the very classic Wild Turkey Rye 101 to the very “new” Pikesville and other delicacies such as Hillrock’s Double Cask and Angel’s Envy Rye finished in Caribbean rum casks.
