I prefer these both served with the bottle chilled and a cherry (plus an orange slice for the Old Fashioned), but they take to ice as well. The full-sized bottle, a 750-milliliter, serves 12. Bottled at 37 ABV, a 375-milliliter bottle of High West’s Barrel Finished Manhattan serves six guests. The medium finish brings just a touch of minty clove with soothing, warm vanilla. High West Barrel Aged Manhattan & Old Fashioned.
A little bit of chewing reveals this juice’s rum-barrel-enhanced dessert-like qualities in the form of fresh-baked date-nut bread (baking spices, dates, and walnuts).
On the palate, vanilla is forefront, followed by the aforementioned bubblegum. A deeper nosedive reveals eucalyptus and dark fruit, specifically dates and raisins. Very light alcohol greets the nose, followed by an immediate waft of bubblegum-like a big, pink square of Hubba Bubba. Vanilla, bubblegum, date-nut bread, rye spice Light alcohol, bubblegum, eucalyptus, dates Was: Redwood Empire Pipe Dream Bourbon Whiskey Cask Strength 750ml UNCUT & UNFILTEREDExperience Pipe Dream straight from the barrel in this limited edition cask. (photo by Outsider) High West Whiskey Double Rye! Barrel Select: What We Say Nose To put this in comparison, High West’s own barrel-finished Manhattan, 36th Vote Barreled Manhattan, retails for 45. It’s right in line with the pricing you usually see for other barrel-finished High West whiskeys. Distilleries: High West (Utah) and MGP (Indiana) At only a 15 premium over the MSRP of the standard High West Double Rye, this is a great price for this unique whiskey.Our store pick from Total Wine in Nashville was finished in a rum barrel (#25897) for one year. We’re big fans of High West Distillery’s A Midwinter Night’s Dram, so we decided to pick up a bottle of their Double Rye! Barrel Select, which is a blend of two ryes (one distilled at High West and one sourced from MGP) that have been finished in second-use barrels (rum, brandy, gin, scotch, or wine) for between six months and two years.
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