Pinhook is a type of distilleries (a la Barrell) that has so many iterations on so many expressions that it’s troublesome to maintain up with all of them. Right this moment we’re checking in with two choices from the busy blender, together with its newest Collaboration Collection providing and our first encounter with its Vertical Collection Bourbon.
Pinhook Collaboration Collection No. 4 Cask Power Rye 6 Years Outdated 2025 Overview
Whereas the earlier Pinhook Collaboration was an unique single malt from Australia, No. 4 is a bit more simple, a 6 12 months outdated rye (60% rye, 20% corn, 20% malted barley) distilled at Fort & Key, chosen in collaboration with New Orleans-based bartender and author Neal Bodenheimer. The barrels have been blended dwell on the 2025 Tales of the Cocktail (although one way or the other I missed the occasion). Purchases assist the Tales of the Cocktail Basis and the bartending group to the tune of $5 for every bottle bought; 2000 bottles produced.
This rye showcases a somewhat delicate nostril, with a very good mixture of grassy, herbaceous parts and sweeter baking spices as enhances. A buttery toffee notice rounds issues out, laced with vanilla. On the palate, the grassier facet of the rye is extra on show, with hints of recent fennel up entrance. Cloves and allspice provide a respite from that briefly order, with a midpalate that approaches baked apples and carrot cake. The end is on the gritty, earthy facet, as some muddier parts develop into dominant. The conclusion evokes flavors of graphite and a stronger clove character, meandering its method towards cigar tobacco and a reprise of well-dried grasses.
By itself the whiskey didn’t at all times thrill me, but when the objective was to create a bartender-friendly cask power rye that might work in cocktails, I’d say it’s a job pretty effectively carried out.
121.9 proof. B+ / $80
Pinhook Vertical Collection Straight Bourbon 10 Years Outdated 2025 Overview
This isn’t to be confused with the Tiz Rye Time Vertical Collection — which is rye, in fact. This Vertical Collection is from the bourbon Vertical Collection, which we have now one way or the other not reviewed thus far. The concept’s the identical: to observe what occurs to barrels as they age, with releases of the identical inventory occurring on an annual foundation till the whiskey runs out.
So, let’s dive in proper on the center, I assume, with a ten 12 months outdated launched that’s the seventh of 13 deliberate whiskeys to be launched, one every year. All are MGP inventory with comparable fill dates and similar mashbills (75% corn, 20.5% rye, 4.5% malted barley), pulled from 1350 complete barrels that have been acquired years in the past.
This 10 12 months outdated showcases a reasonably candy nostril, heavy with notes of toasted corn with brown butter — later evoking extra of a butterscotch high quality. Issues rapidly get a bit dusty with notes of rosemary and sage because the nostril develops, the rye (and time in barrel) maybe doing greater than their share of heavy lifting. The palate lands between the 2 worlds, with a grassy character that strikes towards tobacco, then on to toasted rye bread. Fairly restrained up high. Clove and cinnamon spices perk up after the extra savory rush fades, with the end returning to that well-browned butter, flecked with cinnamon.
At 10 years outdated, this whiskey is already beginning to really feel well-aged and a bit austere, to the purpose the place I’d query whether or not it’s able to age for an additional 12 months, a lot much less six extra years. Not that I’m not sport to learn the way all of it goes.
115.9 proof. B / $90
Pinhook Vertical Collection Straight Bourbon 10 Years Outdated 2025
USD90
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