Basil Hayden Dark Rye

Enjoyed neat from a rocks glass at a restaurant. This is going to be a short review. This is sweet (ish), fruity (ish), cloying, and mostly inoffensive. It is not, however, a rye. There's nothing rye-like to speak of. There's very little to the (short) finish. No spices. No crazy fruitcake notes. No pepper. No complexity. No spark. What is there? Whatever it was bored the bejesus out of me. Pour an indifferent port into a indifferent rye and you'll end up with something like this. I don't like it and I'm certainly not spending money to buy a bottle after this tasting. I can think of half a dozen other whiskies I'd rather have, and all priced under $20 per bottle. This is a rye for people who don't like rye... or whiskey. Hard pass

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