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Bourbon Review: Redwood Empire Devils Tower High Rye Bourbon

We review Redwood Empire Devils Tower High Rye Bourbon, sporting a four-grain mash bill with 51% corn, 45% rye, 2% wheat, and 2% malt.

OVERALL RATING

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Redwood Empire Devils Tower High Rye Bourbon review

Tasting Notes

About:

High rye bourbon sporting a four-grain mash bill with 51% corn, 45% rye, 2% wheat, and 2% malt; bottled at 99 proof; priced north of $80.
Appearance:
A moderate amber-golden color shines in the glass, strikingly like golden beams of sunlight streaking through a redwood forest. The legs are sufficient, as is the viscosity.
Nose:
The extremely high rye of the mash bill is immediately evident, reflecting a balanced sweet and spicy aroma. Notes of vanilla, green apple, black pepper, honeysuckle and caramel flicker together amongst each other.
Palate:
Washing quickly over my tongue is that same excellent balance of sweetness and spice, highlighting tastes of black pepper, honey, vanilla, oak, caramel, brown sugar, and baking spice.
Finish:
The finish holds steady and true, leaving a lingering sweet/spicy tingling as it fades silently into stillness like the last rays of light in an ancient forest.
Comments:
This is an easily drinkable high rye style bourbon, with the tiny amounts of wheat and malt subdued just enough to let the rye and corn balance ideally. You’ve got an excellent sipper in glass in this expression.

Editor’s Note: This whiskey was either bought as a sample by The Whiskey Wash or provided to us as a review sample by the party behind it. Per our editorial policies, this in no way influenced the outcome of this review.

Nino Kilgore-Marchetti

Nino Kilgore-Marchetti is the founder of The Whiskey Wash, an award-winning whiskey lifestyle website dedicated to informing and entertaining consumers about whisk(e)y globally. As a whisk(e)y journalist, expert, and judge, he has written extensively about the subject, been interviewed in various media outlets, and provided tasting input on many whiskeys at competitions.

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