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E. H. Taylor Straight Rye Whiskey

The beginning of the affair

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@MuddyFunsterReview by @MuddyFunster

31st Jan 2016

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  • Nose
    25
  • Taste
    24
  • Finish
    24
  • Balance
    24
  • Overall
    97

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I bought this whiskey on a trip to New York. I specifically hunted it down. In the UK it's £120 a bottle. I bought it in Bowery & Vine for $55. Totally thrilled.

This was my first taste of American rye and it has changed my whisky drinking life.

Pours into the glass with a rich oily orange amber hue. One of the best looking whiskys I've seen in the glass.

Nose is sublime. A 24 or 25. Stunning. It's the moment I discover that I love rye. The rye grain in this just has an amazing perfumed aroma. Intense aromatic rye, dusty rye chaff, apricot and peach fruit, some sort of exotic floral, orange blossom, sugary sweetness like a hyper concentrated sweet wine, a concentrated grape vinous, subtle fresh oak, ever so slight eucalyptus. I could go on and on, but let's get to the taste.

Peppery spice, light burn, intense rye grains, orange blossom, apricot, crystal demerara sugar sweetness, eucalyptus, stem ginger. the intensity gives way to some slight subtle oak and creaminess but no dryness. There's a subtle complexity to this whiskey that builds and builds.

Finish is spicy with the undulating notes of rye grain, floral and sweetness lingering on and on...

An extraordinary whiskey. I've already got plans to get another of these in the UK and I'll gladly pay for it.

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4 comments

@Nozinan
Nozinan commented

Wow ! so good you posted a review of it twice!

I believe this used to be available at the LCBO. Sadly, I had no experience with rye at the time and never bought any.

Happy to hear you can stock up for the future.

8 years ago 0

@paddockjudge
paddockjudge commented

@MuddyFunster, Congratulations on discovering the superior grain, rye. I am now, and have been a rye-hound for forty years. I wish you could have accessed it sooner. Pleases try some of the higher concentrated rye offerings, both malted and unmalted. North America has a bounty of rye based whisk(e)y.

Cheers!

8 years ago 0

@SKEPTIC
SKEPTIC commented

like Whistle pig?

8 years ago 0

@newreverie
newreverie commented

High praise. Taylor rye happens to be one of my least favorites in the style, but I agree with paddockjudge that rye is the superior grain. I don't think that any other grain offers the versatility ranging from the overt sweetness of some Canadian offerings to the fruitiness of a few styles and my favorite herbal pepperyness of many American ryes - including taylor.

8 years ago 0

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