We confess...we didn't coin the term "Yippee Ki-Yay". Moreover, we didn't paint the picture on the front label. It's an historic poster (Gift of The Coe Foundation and Henry B. Balink) now at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming (centerofthewest.org, you really ought to visit). Furthermore, we didn't distill the whiskeys in this bottle - it's our Double Rye! However, we did come up with a combination that we think will make you say...Yippee Ki-Yay drinkers of horrible tasting cheap flavored uisge beatha! One day, just for fun, we put Double Rye! into oak barrels that had originally been used to age two different types of wine and discovered an all-natural, not disgustingly-sweet sipper for the rest of us.

Technical Details

Ratio of whiskeys: top secret!

Filtration: not chill-filtered, or carbon treated.

Marriage of two straight rye whiskies

The 2-year-old has a mashbill of 95% rye, 5% barley malt from LDI now MGP.

The older rye has a "barely legal" rye mashbill of 53% rye and 37% corn from Barton Distillery.

Barrel Type(s)

Barrel types:

Oak barrel that previously held Vermouth Barrel (Vya, Madera, CA),

Oak barrel that previously held Qupé Syrah (Qupé Santa maria, CA)

Nose: Warm baking spices with sweet cinnamon and clove spice, dried thyme, rosemary & desert sage with subtle black berry and cassis

Taste: spiced maple and cinnamon, black cherry and raisin / spiced plums

Finish: Dark caramel, currants & raisins, all interwoven with cinnamon / all spice complex

Taste: A big, bold punch of cinnamon spice and blackberries on a foundation of vanilla and caramel, the long finish is dried orange rind and herbs.

93 Points - The Tasting Panel Magzine

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