Heaven Hill Distillery is currently the biggest family owned distillery in the United States and the second largest holder of bourbon whiskey inventory in the world. Heaven Hill deserves more credit than they probably get for keeping the rye tradition going in the United States. Despite its abysmal popularity, they continued producing rye whiskey — sometimes reducing production to a single day per calendar year, but they steadfastly continued to crank it out until sales once again started to pick up steam.
Not much beyond the name has been maintained between the old Pennsylvania-made Rittenhouse and the new Kentucky manufactured spirit from Heaven Hill. Once those grains are cooked and fermented, they are distilled in Kentucky and the newly made whiskey is placed into brand new charred oak barrels.
There they rest for a minimum of four full years before being extracted and bottled for sale. The bottle is capped off with a plastic screw-on cap. The label is where things get a little interesting. The first thing I get off this glass is actually an aroma of apples. Definitely some orchard-fruit scents here, blending that apple with some orange, a touch of cherry and rounding it out with a bit of caramel. Taking a sip, though, this is a dark and rich flavor profile. The very first thing I get is dark chocolate — including the little bit of bitterness that comes with that flavor.
Coming in from the sides is a bit of that apple and orange flavor that we were promised from the aroma, and as the dark chocolate subsides the flavors resolve into a nice caramel and vanilla profile. On the finish, you get all of the hallmarks of a good rye whiskey. I'm 21 or over NO! I'm not 21 yet. Rittenhouse Rye Bottled in Bond. The sample used for this review was provided to us at no cost courtesy its respective company.
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This is a benchmark rye whiskey. Need an affordable bottle to make great cocktails? A little spice? A little sweet? Rittenhouse and Rittenhouse. When I drink other rye whiskeys, regardless of price, Rittenhouse is what I use as the baseline for judging them. There was a brief period of time a few years ago when Rittenhouse Rye was difficult to find. Heaven Hill was in the process of switching the actual distillery where their rye was distilled.
I was going to get into that story in the intro, but the intro was already way too long. Once they restored their capacity to distill a sufficient amount of rye and let it age, Heaven Hill began selling their own distillate again.
But during that same time of transition, rye was beginning to get more popular, and Rittenhouse in particular was in high demand due in large part to the craft cocktail movement. Word had got out that Rittenhouse was perfect for so many mixed drink recipes.
During that time, I was desperately trying to find a bottle of Rittenhouse, but every store in Middle Tennessee was sold out. I assumed it was a mistake and took the bottle to the cashier in order to determine the actual price.
The cashier thought the price was right, but scanned the barcode to appease me. It was no mistake, he said. I laughed and put the bottle back on the shelf, telling him no one in their right mind would ever buy it at that price. Buy again?
Rittenhouse is staple in my house. I always have at least a couple of bottles on hand. Questions about my scoring system?
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