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Templeton Rye 4 Year
Rye — Indiana (bottled in Iowa), USA
Reviewed
April 11, 2015 (edited November 28, 2018)
This is not small batch whisky, this is sourced from somewhere else (MGP/LDI) and bottled in Iowa. The marketing spiel is also pretty much complete BS meant to move product. But what about flavor? Well, it's very smooth, mainly some vanilla sweetness and really light spiciness unlike most rye whiskey where spice is the predominant flavors. This is a pretty neutral whisky. The real question is what are they adding to flavor it. Cause there's apparently an chemical cocktail additive they had purposely created to add into this whisky. I have no idea what that is, nor have I found anything that speaks to this online yet but in my opinion that makes this a flavored whisky. Its just a question of what the flavoring is...
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Great comments and thanks for the info! I hadn't actually listened to that whisky cast before. So it is definitely a flavoring agent being added. Proprietary recipe or not that still leaves me with reservations. Wonder who in the big leagues is doing that as well if it's legal and requires no disclosure.
...sorry, posted without me finishing. Blog post entitled "Flavoring is Legal in American Whiskey". There is a link to Mark Gillespie's Whisky Cast where he has a conversation with the Templeton folks.
Agreed that "small batch" is a pretty meaningless word; there aren't laws that speak to using this term, so anyone can use this for marketing their product. That is unfortunate because it leaves those just getting in to whiskey feel they were "duped" when they discover this fact out. As to your latter comments about the additive in the whiskey, search Chuck Cowdery's blog post