Neat. Neck pour. Just picked this up from the distillery two hours ago, time to enjoy it on the porch surrounded by my closest 100+ cicada friends that are making quite the ruckus out here. Oh man, it’s dark and my first nosing note was the oak! The oak on a New Riff! So excited to see them reach this mile Stone of a 6 year age statement. This is dark on first impression. Oak, malt, charred caramel and pepper. Starting to find a very nice floral layer and powder sugar sweetness. The nose is mostly subtle though. Only 100 proof and it smells lower than that. Mouthfeel is coating but not quite creamy. Very sweet on first impression on the tongue. It has this familiar childhood cereal flavor initially, I’m going with Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Transitions to a fabulous caramel and butterscotch mid palate. The rye doesn’t come in until the finish and it has a delicious malted milk ball and chocolate note with it. More floral is coming mid palate as I spend time with it, mirroring the nose. This is a deceptive rye. Either the malting process or the extra age really creates more of a profile I would associate with a bourbon than rye. The rye pops up on the finish but it’s honestly nothing more than the rye in a New Riff bourbon or a MGP high rye bourbon. I like this so much. I don’t want to overhype it, but for the $60 price tag this is a fantastic Sunday afternoon sipper. If it were more expensive, my score would go down. In the price range, this is one of my favorite ryes and one of my favorite experimental bottles.