Kentucky Peerless launched its first Toasted Rye in early 2025 and promptly offered out. A second version arrived in current months, made utilizing the identical course of: Peerless Toasted Rye is aged first the distillery’s normal, degree 3 charred new oak barrel, then moved to a second, toasted barrel for ending. There’s no extra element on the toasting course of for the ending barrels, nor any information on the period of time spent in both sort of wooden.
Let’s give it a spin.
Kentucky Peerless Toasted Rye Evaluate
The nostril of the whiskey is surprisingly wealthy, instantly, with notes of darkish chocolate and low, with loads of vanilla to proceed the dessert-like theme. Whereas a vein of cloves and dried thyme quickly evoke the underlying rye grain and its inherent spice, a blanket of silky caramel retains all of it fairly delicate and alluring — nearer to a rye-driven bourbon than a straight rye.
The palate continues the work of mixing the 2 types — candy, sugary notes melding properly with greener, extra natural fare. As on the nostril, the primary of those tends to win out most of the time, laying out numerous vanilla and milk chocolate throughout the tongue earlier than tiptoeing its manner into cinnamon and orange peel parts. These hints of rosemary and thyme — some contemporary bay leaf, too — slowly emerge because the end arrives, although it’s practically unimaginable to maintain chocolate and a late-game punch of juicy, raisiny fruit out of the image.
Not often does a rye come throughout with this a lot effusive, dessert-like sweetness, but when that’s your jam, this can be a bottle to hunt out. (It definitely was mine.) Perhaps the mystique of the toasted barrel is price taking note of in spite of everything…
107 proof. Reviewed: Batch #2.
A / $110
Kentucky Peerless Toasted Rye
USD110
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