High West is a distillery located in Salt Lake City, Utah. They have largely gained fame for their whiskey over the years by sourcing some amazing barrels and creating delicious mainstream and limited releases. They have since set up a distillery and have stocks of various whiskey aging.
The limited edition Midwinter Night's Dram is released yearly (with Act 3 arriving Fall 2015). It is their standard Rendezvous Rye Whiskey that has been finished in Port and French Oak barrels. The whiskey inside is sourced from MGP in Indiana (6-year 95% Rye, 5% Barley) and Barton Distillery (16-year 80% Rye, 10% Corn, 10% Barley), and is then finished for a period in the Port and French Oak Barrels.
The color is a deep reddish mahogany.
There is a sweetness on the nose of brown sugar, butterscotch and caramel, along with straw/hay, dill, nutmeg, clove and raspberry.
The palate is medium weight and drier than on my previous tasting, showing oak, vanilla dusty hay, dried herbs, caramel, brown sugar, raspberry, dried cherry notes and cinnamon.
The finish is long, warm and smooth. There are some hay/grain notes, along with vanilla, oak and caramel syrup.
This bottle has been open over a year and it has changed a bit. I still love it however, and would snap up any of it I can find. I think overall the fruit characteristics have toned down (previously I got fig and plum) and the sweetness has tapered from molasses, toffee and a lactic creaminess. I think the bottle has become drier, picking up more hay, dill and dried herbal notes. Still a favorite, but is becoming more toned down.
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