Minor Case Straight Rye Sherry Cask Finished

Sherry nose for sure. Follows throughout. Not much rye character. Makes for a nice aperitif or dessert whiskey. Also mild notes of oak with velvet feel.

Tastes good, can taste the cask finish influence. I like it but not one of my top pours

Good burn but not amazing

The nose is loaded with fruits as the Distiller review suggests, there is also a good bit of brown caramel sugars yielding the big sweet bouquet of almost a high rye bourbon nose. I can certainly see where they were going with this. Up front the sugars quickly give way to a hot spicy rye note and that heat stays through to the end, I'm guessing this is probably 4 years old maximum and the sherry cask goes a good way in hiding the youth that is underlying the spicy heat with just a tad of that menthol rye we get from young product. The fruit sugars just don't quite mesh with the rye spice heat and harsh menthol making this a nice try but no cigar on the finished rye front. Once again I suspect a whiskey rush to market betrayed what could have been a really good or even top notch finished rye, and that's a shame. Short changing the ageing process just never pays off. This is a rye you would use to mix a Manhattan, not break out trying to impress a guest, certainly not one who is a veteran of the rye whiskey line. Due to the price being pretty reasonable it still gets a fair mark for affordable, and drinkable, just not impressive. Straight rye of a very high corn bill finished in sherry casks is exactly what this seems like, not exactly a trademark "Beam" product line but an average drinking rye just the same.

Love the start and sweet finish for the price