The Parker's Heritage line has dabbled in some pretty experimental releases in recent years, but this is just a big, bold, classic rye.
has favored an experimental outlook on the American whiskey world, often reflecting unique secondary maturations or barrel finishes, or novel aging techniques. This has yielded such efforts as three straight years of “heavy char” experimental releases in the three most important Heaven Hill mashbills–bourbon, wheated bourbon and rye whiskey–along with everything from malt whiskey to whiskey finished in orange curacao barrels.
Conceptually, this is pretty much as safe as these picks get, but the reality is that many American whiskey geeks probably get most excited about conventional releases anyway. And it’s not as if cask strength rye whiskey from Heaven Hill–or more Kentucky distilleries, in fact–is that easy to come by. In fact, unlike its ever-popularlineup, or the now well-established Larceny Barrel Proof , the company has no regularly releasing cask-strength rye whiskey.
Enter, Parker’s Heritage 10-Year-Old Cask Strength Rye Whiskey, made from the company’s classic Kentucky 51% rye mash bill. This release is composed of 10-year ryes that were barreled in Aug., Oct. or Dec. of 2012, and then aged on the first floors of Rickhouses H1 and H2, the fifth floor of Rickhouse FF, the third and seventh floors of Rickhouse BB, and the second floor of Rickhouse DD. The non-chill filtered whiskey was bottled at a commanding cask strength of 64.4% ABV .
On the palate, two of the first things to immediately appear are mint and caramel, along with a reprise of dark chocolate. I’m getting some deeply caramelized sugars and vanilla cream, along with charred oak, herbaceousness and notably minty rye. There’s significant sweetness to the roasty dimension, nicely balanced by grassy and savory herbal rye, with lots of tobacco.
All in all, this definitely feels orders of magnitude bigger, bolder and deeper than even the likes of Pikesville Rye. If you’re a fan of Heaven Hill’s ryes, or Kentucky-style rye in general, it’s among the most flavorful examples you’re going to find out there today. As a Parker’s Heritage release, it’s not among the most creative or trendsetting, but this seems bound to satisfy whiskey geeks who just want to enjoy a well-matured, cask strength rye.
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