New York Distilling Company Writers Rye Whiskey Chapter 2.2 Simonson
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Age: 8-Years 6-Months
Distilled: 10/17/2014
Bottled: 4/21/2023
Barrel: #344
Proof: 112 Proof
Bottle Count: 186 bottles
Mash Bill: 72/16/12 Pedersen Field Race Rye from Seneca Falls NY/Corn/Malted Barely
Seelbach's Tasting Notes: Cream soda, brown sugar, plum, red apple, orange peel, soft mint and sweet oak - this nose packs it all.
The palate is sticky initially, leading with more caramel, brown sugar, red apple and raspberry than I would have expected. Further sips give deeper honey or maple-like sweetness as it soaks into the tongue. Black pepper and clove may be present here, but well balanced amidst the sweeter tones and oaky lower tones.
The finish trails medium long, trading licks back and forth among dried fruits, sweet oak, leather tannins, and baking spice.
Aaron's Tasting Notes: anise, Christmas spices, Sazerac cocktail, Rolos.
Robert's Tasting Notes: brawny, baking spices, dark cherry, caramel.
Label Copy "The Great Gatsby": The bar is in full swing and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside until the air is alive with chatter and laughter and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names. The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher. Laughter is easier, minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word. The groups change more swiftly, swell with new arrivals, dissolve and form in the same breath—already there are wanderers, confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable, become for a sharp, joyous moment the center of a group and then excited with triumph glide on through the sea-change of faces and voices and color under the constantly changing light.
This selection was done by Aaron Goldfarb and Robert Simonson.
Tasting Process: In 2021 Brooklyn-based friends and fellow spirits journalists, Robert Simonson and Aaron Goldfarb crossed the borough to Williamsburg and picked their first two barrels of New York Distilling Co. rye whiskey, something that would eventually be dubbed "Writer's Rye." A year later, they would return to pick two further rye barrels, one of which you hold in your hands.
Age: 8-Years 6-Months
Distilled: 10/17/2014
Bottled: 4/21/2023
Barrel: #344
Proof: 112 Proof
Bottle Count: 186 bottles
Mash Bill: 72/16/12 Pedersen Field Race Rye from Seneca Falls NY/Corn/Malted Barely
Seelbach's Tasting Notes: Cream soda, brown sugar, plum, red apple, orange peel, soft mint and sweet oak - this nose packs it all.
The palate is sticky initially, leading with more caramel, brown sugar, red apple and raspberry than I would have expected. Further sips give deeper honey or maple-like sweetness as it soaks into the tongue. Black pepper and clove may be present here, but well balanced amidst the sweeter tones and oaky lower tones.
The finish trails medium long, trading licks back and forth among dried fruits, sweet oak, leather tannins, and baking spice.
Aaron's Tasting Notes: anise, Christmas spices, Sazerac cocktail, Rolos.
Robert's Tasting Notes: brawny, baking spices, dark cherry, caramel.
Label Copy "The Great Gatsby": The bar is in full swing and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside until the air is alive with chatter and laughter and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names. The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher. Laughter is easier, minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word. The groups change more swiftly, swell with new arrivals, dissolve and form in the same breath—already there are wanderers, confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable, become for a sharp, joyous moment the center of a group and then excited with triumph glide on through the sea-change of faces and voices and color under the constantly changing light.
This selection was done by Aaron Goldfarb and Robert Simonson.
Tasting Process: In 2021 Brooklyn-based friends and fellow spirits journalists, Robert Simonson and Aaron Goldfarb crossed the borough to Williamsburg and picked their first two barrels of New York Distilling Co. rye whiskey, something that would eventually be dubbed "Writer's Rye." A year later, they would return to pick two further rye barrels, one of which you hold in your hands.