New Riff Single Barrel - D&M

D&M NOTES:

OVERVIEW: This single barrel bourbon (#27725) which comes from New Riff's high-rye mashbill (30%) was distilled and filled in May 2020. It is a 4-year and 5-month bourbon aged in Kelvin Cooperage Char #4 barrels at Warehouse C coming in at 110.5 proof.

TASTING: This is like fall in a glass, with a nose of pumpkin, baking spice-predominately nutmeg, pear and dried apricot, it follows with a palate of Szechuan pepper, maple, honey, ginger, clove spices, toasted grain like faro and barrel staves.

ABOUT THE PRODUCER: While just over a decade old, New Riff is still a relatively new distillery yet they have already made a name for themselves in the world of whiskey. New Riff is a family-owned company started by two partners, Ken Lewis, who came to the project after running his family’s liquor stores (Liquor Barn), and Jay Erisman, another retail veteran. (Certainly an ownership combination that we here at D&M can get behind.) When Ken and Jay started this business over 10 years ago it was their goal to make a good, affordable whiskey, and to do it all on their own to not be beholden to the whims of a large corporation. While they did start by releasing sourced products under the OKI brand, they have only released products 100% made by them under the New Riff label. Now New Riff produces Bourbon, Rye, the Balboa Rye, a Single Malt and many more special editions.