Woodford Reserve Rye
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| 12602 | |
| Woodford Reserve | |
| USA, Kentucky | |
| Rye | |
| 45.2% | |
| 0.7 l | |
| Original bottling | |
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| Average tasting notes Tasting Notes |
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Nosing
Fruit:
Oak:
Sweet:
Vanilla:
Apple:
Mint:
Pear:
Spices:
Herbs:
Caramel:
Malt:
Peach:
Pepper:
Rye:
Wheat:
Cake:
Clove:
Tasting
Malt:
Spices:
Sweet:
Wheat:
Oak:
Clove:
Nuts:
Oil:
Rye:
Honey:
Pepper:
Vanilla:
Herbs:
Caramel:
Heather:
Mint:
Nutmeg:
Orange:
Peat Smoke:
Seaweed:
Zitrus:
Maritime Notes:
Alcohol:
Apple:
Barley:
Chili:
Fruit:
Finish
Malt:
Wheat:
Fruit:
Oak:
Spices:
Sweet:
Herb:
Dark Chocolate:
Grass:
Peach:
Rye:
Herbs:
Chocolate:
Pepper:
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Quality rating of this bottle
3.6
Rate
11
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Quality comparison of bottles
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Tasting notes of SlàinteMhath:
17. Feb 2019
My recent interest in rye led me to explore some of the main brands, today Woodford Reserve from Kentucky, USA. With only 53% rye in the mash bill, it appears fairly tame and 'bourbon-y'. Sweet spices, caramel popcorn and herbal honey form the nose, mixed with pineapple, walnuts and hints of fresh wood. The taste is spicier, oak-driven and slightly spirity with notes of bitter oranges, cloves and mild pepper. Lingering wood spices and orange zest remain in the medium finish. A perfectly drinkable rye, but less punchy and bold than Rittenhouse.
RATING: 3.4/5.0 ≙ 82 pts
RATING: 3.4/5.0 ≙ 82 pts
All tasting notes
15. Jun 2018
Nosing: 
Very aromatic, black pepper, fragrant wood, menthol and fresh horseradish
Taste:
Predominantly peppery and spicy. Cloves and nutmeg. That horseradish thing is back, it gets right up the back of your sinuses. Predominantly sweet but ends with a sour tang.
Finish:
Long and spicy
Comment:
Got this as a tester for Rye whisky. I'd definitely say it was interesting, but not sure I'll be coming back to it. The nose is very interesting in particular. Mixed feelings on this one.
Very aromatic, black pepper, fragrant wood, menthol and fresh horseradish
Taste:
Predominantly peppery and spicy. Cloves and nutmeg. That horseradish thing is back, it gets right up the back of your sinuses. Predominantly sweet but ends with a sour tang.
Finish:
Long and spicy
Comment:
Got this as a tester for Rye whisky. I'd definitely say it was interesting, but not sure I'll be coming back to it. The nose is very interesting in particular. Mixed feelings on this one.
09. Jan 2018
16. Mar 2019
Nosing: 
baked 
(i.e., not a vibrant fruit; more subdued, even diluted)
Taste: and more than a touch of 
Finish: a lingering and a musty (but pleasantly complementary) bitterness that comes across as 
Comment: Quite a long time in the glass before the rye makes its way to the fore on the nose. A great deal of sugar sweetness dominates out of the bottle, with the requisite oak spice intertwined.
As a whiskey, Woodford Reserve Rye is enjoyable. Strictly as a rye whiskey, however, it lacks the complex bite that distinguishes the style.
baked (i.e., not a vibrant fruit; more subdued, even diluted)Taste:
and more than a touch of Finish:
a lingering and a musty (but pleasantly complementary) bitterness that comes across as Comment: Quite a long time in the glass before the rye makes its way to the fore on the nose. A great deal of sugar sweetness dominates out of the bottle, with the requisite oak spice intertwined.
As a whiskey, Woodford Reserve Rye is enjoyable. Strictly as a rye whiskey, however, it lacks the complex bite that distinguishes the style.
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