So far they have released "only" unaged stuff, their silver oat, silver barley and vodka.
But they also bottled a range of ryes and bourbons, sourced at different distilelleries
This is the third High West I review, the other two can be found here :
http://danishwhiskyblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/3-ryes-and-bourbon.html
1. High West Bourye 46%
This is a blend of bourbon and rye whiskey. As far as I know this is a blend of 10yo four roses (their 20% rye mashbill), 12yo LDI (95% rye and 5% barley) and 16yo Barton (53% rye, 37% corn and 10% barley)
Nose : Treesap, spice, sweet wood, delicious rye, one of those whiskies you just want to keep on nosing
Palate : Sweetness, quite woody, but bourbon and ryes do appear woody to me as I started out as a single malt drinker. There's a reallly good balance between the wood, vanilla and spicy rye. 95% ryes can be somehow synthetic and one-sided, but the flavours are really well blendend together here
Finish : medium-long
Rating 90
Comment's : This whiskey isn't a traditional blend, but being vatted together of casks from three different distilleries it actually is. American and scottish blends are used to describe different kind of products.
But this IS blended together really good. My favourite High West so far!
2. Pappy van Winkle 15yo 53.5%
Nose: Wood, solvent, vanilla, cinnamon, cardamom
Palate: Intensen: Very woody, creamy vanilla, tobacco, liqorise
Finish : medium-long
Comment : This is a wheated bourbon. If you like woody tastes this is for you
Rating 85
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