High West Rocky Mountain Rye 21 Year Old

High West Rendezvous Rye

High West Distillery in Park City, Utah, is the first distillery to be licensed in Utah since Prohibition. The High West distillery products have not yet aged sufficiently to be commercially marketed. The current Rendezvous Rye Whiskey, named after the annual summer trade gatherings in that area during the 19th century, combines a 6 yr old 95%...

Score 93/100

High West Silver Whiskey Western Oat

Assay #11F01, Bottle 1068. Once again, I look at High West to try out another whiskey category: this time, the un-aged oak whiskey (admittedly, a rather limited category, but hey! It's available in Québec). Drunk neat. Nose: Very powerful, and also very different from any whisky I've tried before: it actually reminds me a bit of white tequila. I...

Score 78/100

High West Campfire

This Campfire from High West is a bit of an oddball. It is a blend of bourbon and rye and peated whisky from Scotland. Legend has it that David Perkins, the man behind High West, got pancakes with syrup for breakfast while visiting Islay. The syrup was created with Bruichladdich and he was so taken with it, that he wanted Islay whisky in his...

Score 83/100

High West Whiskey Dinner DC March 13, 2011

This is a review of a dinner event held on March 13, 2011 featuring 5 High West whiskeys paired with the courses of a degustation menu from Michael Mina's Bourbon Steak Restaurant in the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, DC. Comments on each whiskey will be more brief in this review than if the whiskeys were reviewed individually. The ryes were...

Score 90/100