A TRIBUTE TO THE TIME-HONORED TRADITION OF BARREL AGING.

Our master distiller Nathan Perry worked with mentor Dave Pickerell, a legend in the whiskey industry, to create this special rye. Our Straight Rye Whiskey Bottled in Bond is held to rigorous standards. We use only the finest grains available to create the 96% rye, 4% barley mash bill. We then age it for six years in our historic Kansas City rickhouse, resulting in an exemplary whiskey with complex aromas and rich flavors. It's a delicious rye for you to enjoy and a fitting tribute to our friend Dave.

— NON CHILL FILTERED —
ABV:
50%
PROOF:
100
FORMAT:
750ml
AVAILABILITY:
Limited release in Missouri and Kansas
RELEASE DATES:
2023 Edition: August 16, 2023
2022 Edition: September 8, 2022
2021 Edition: August 16, 2021
AWARDS:
Gold - 2023 San Francisco World Spirits Competition
Gold - 2023 ASCOT Awards
94 Points - 2023 Ultimate Spirits Challenge

THE STORY

For 95 years, J. Rieger & Co. sat dormant, a casualty of a failed social experiment known as Prohibition. Kansas City didn’t legally distill for nearly a century.

In 2014, under the guidance of industry legend, Dave Pickerell, Ryan Maybee and Andy Rieger successfully relaunched the J. Rieger & Co. brand and got the booze flowing in KC once again. From the start we committed to allowing our whiskeys time to properly age. We respect the time-honored tradition of aging whiskey in 53-gallon White American Oak barrels and believe that absolutely nothing can substitute for time spent in a barrel.

We elected to release our earliest Rye Whiskey distillates as Bottled in Bond Whiskeys, a uniquely American distinction of quality, commitment and heritage. More Rye expressions are on the horizon.

This product is a tribute to Dave Pickerell, the larger-than-life legendary Master distiller, who was kind enough to bestow upon us his knowledge and passion for creating the finest Whiskeys in America. And also to Kansas City, our hometown since 1887 for supporting us, believing in us and rooting us on.

OUR PROCESS

This whiskey is a pot distilled rye that consists of 96% rye and 4% malted barley.  We really wanted to showcase the rye and that is why we chose to make it a very dominant rye grain bill.  We distilled this rye paying very close attention to the spice that we all know and love from rye whiskeys and made sure that what we put in the barrel had the aggressive spice we had hoped for.  This whiskey was aged for 6 years in new, charred white oak barrels from Independent Stave in Lebanon, Missouri.

TASTING NOTES

Aromas of caramelized orange and fresh baked bread. Flowery notes of orange blossom and cut grass. Flavors of toasted cedar, five spice, salty sunflower seeds and cinnamon. Mid-palate is rich with chocolate-covered cherries, buttered popcorn, and a lingering spicy fruit-jam character. A cherry-cola like quality. A long finish with drier notes of sage, mint, and a little toasted coconut. Extremely balanced and pleasant to revisit with each sip.
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