Dry Fly Straight Wheat Whiskey Port Barrel Finish 3 Year

The port finish is weirdly sweet

I've been slowly trying Dry Fly products over years as I visited the PNW. The company mission and ethic is attractive. This bottle. Sweet grain in the nose, light and floral. Sweet cereal, green apple, and then red wine tannins rise up in the mouth. Soft, light body, as befits a wheat whiskey, but with a ruby red hue. Short finish flows into a tannic aftertaste. Opens and softens with a little ice melt. Improves on their straight wheat whiskey, but I think time in oak is more determinate in improving all their better whiskeys (although 4-5 years is about max for Dry Fly). Here you have the standard 3 years plus 6 to 12 months in port casks. I hope they'll start making 4+ yrs their minimum and going up from there. The 5 year Triticale port cask whiskey was much better than this, but then the triticale is not just wheat and it was a limited production batch. I may have rated their straight wheat whiskey higher back when I first had it in 2013--taking it for what it was back then: the quality product of a young distillery. But I expected more of this version with another year in port wood and 7 more years of experience. To be clear, this IS a good wheat whiskey, easy to sip, but a little light to mix in cocktails. I just hoped for more. NOTE July 2021: see Dry Fly's new black bottle release, small batch straight wheat whiskey, aged 6 years, finished in port barrels (Townshend Huckleberry Port from WA?), bottled at 45% ABV. Expensive, but this is what they should be doing.

Underwhelming. The Triticale was beyond phenomenal. This just completely falls flat and has no soul. The port doesn't even seem to save it. Will not buy again. If offered I'd ask for a generic bourbon instead

Very smooth finish