New Remus Bourbon and Rossville Rye Single Barrels

We’re on the road this week picking more single barrels, but there’s still plenty to feature here at Seelbach’s!

This week we've got a pair of single barrels selected by Fred Minnick’s Club Marzipan. First up is Rossville Union, a 9.5-year-old 95/5 rye. You may remember that we featured a pair of 8.5-year-old barrels on the site last year, and they were some of our favorite ryes of the entire year. The combination of richness, sweetness, spice, age, and price is hard to beat. This one drinks even older than its 9.5-year age statement.

The nose smells like a 12-plus-year-old rye. Herbal vanilla cream, sweet oak, demerara syrup, lime zest, buttery rye bread, and deep baking spices. Creamy, candied, yet spicy and indulgent, especially the longer it rests in the glass.

The well-aged oak note remains present but restrained as the sip begins. It transitions into pear juice, peach ring candies, honey, and plenty of white pepper, lemon zest, and fresh ginger as it dances across the palate. Rich and pillowy.

As rich as the palate is, the finish continues more softly, and given its age and proof, I’m not surprised. It continues with plenty of milk chocolate-covered dark fruit and honey, as creamy vanilla and sugary lime stretch into a long-lasting spiced caramel.

Alongside it is Remus Bourbon, an 8-year-old bourbon bottled at 115 proof. This marks our first single-barrel release under the Remus label using MGP’s experimental mash bill of 51% corn, 39% rye, and 10% malted rye, but it is not the first time we’ve offered this mash bill on the site this year.

You may remember a Circle City single barrel we released a few months back, which remains one of our favorite single-barrel bourbons we’ve selected so far this year. If you missed that barrel, or simply want more of this experimental profile, you’ve come to the right place.

Even better, both bottles come in under $70.

Heavy and thick on the nose, with dense maple sugar and snickerdoodle cookie dough lingering alongside fresh, buttery blackberry cobbler and sweet oak. It’s very aromatic, with lots to unpack.

The palate is equally rich and decadent and, given the amount of rye present, surprisingly sweet-forward. There’s a beautiful undertone of fruit the whole way through, like flat cherry cola, but the focus remains on big caramel sugars, a touch of leather, and sweet antique oak.

The finish remains sweet with vanilla cream and caramel, but the spices begin to come through more: spiced cola concentrate, sweet oak, and chocolate cream pie.