Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye

The boy is out; the wife is out. Me by my lonesome. I had this 375 sized bottle I got some time back. Now is a good time as ever to have a hump day dram. Grilled apricots seasoned with dill arrives on the nose. The dill eventually turns more to spearmint. Some honey notes and cloves and a touch of vanilla and yeasty, sourdough bread. It arrives spicy and zesty. Once past the spicy sensation, the flavors pull forward. Cinnamon, birch beer (the other root beer), butterscotch, leather. The body is medium in density and yet, though the tongue senses the spice, it the texture is quite soft. The finish is the stronger part of the dram. Oak spice, spearmint, toffee with trace amounts of apples. Warming and drying that lasts for a good length of time. My goto rye for Old Fashioneds and Manhattans is Rittenhouse. A great sipping rye, with some water is High West Midwinter’s. This is pretty darn good as a sipper, though not as flavorful and full as MWND. Would I have this on my stock? Probably not. Though I wouldn’t think twice if the mood strikes for a spicy sipping rye. [85/100][Tasted: 7/11/18]

Very clean smell and taste but body is too young. Just average.