New Riff Balboa Rye
In addition to New Riff's flagship Bourbon and Rye, their distilling team has stretched their creative muscles over the years, producing a number of what they call "specialty whiskeys". Balboa Rye is one of the first specialties they've made. Their corn farmer Charles Fogg has been growing heirloom rye on his family's farm for many years. His chosen variety was Balboa rye, an heirloom grain which dates back to the 1940s as a rye variety popular in Indiana. He offered it to New Riff and they distilled it into rye whiskey, probably the first time in decades that Balboa has been made into whiskey and quite surely the only example on the market today.
Now it has grown up in the barrel! Typical of heirloom rye, the Balboa grain is a little smaller than modern varieties, with a lower output per acre of planting -- but it's no less flavorful for that! The Balboa Rye whiskey offers shimmering notes of spiced fruit unique from New Riff's flagship Rye.
BARREL PROOF WITHOUT CHILL FILTRATION
95% HEIRLOOM BALBOA RYE
5% MALTED RYE
AGED AT LEAST 4 YEARS
100 PROOF
NOSE
Clean ripe oak, controlled & even. With time, develops waxy/honeyed (yet not sweet) fruits. Water yields colorful (black-blue-red skinned) rye fruits and spice
TASTE
Rounded and full-bodied, mid-palate of spiced fruit compote
FINISH
Very long and simply gorgeous, as the fruits are subtly shaded with many spices (clove, wintergreen, nutmeg)
Now it has grown up in the barrel! Typical of heirloom rye, the Balboa grain is a little smaller than modern varieties, with a lower output per acre of planting -- but it's no less flavorful for that! The Balboa Rye whiskey offers shimmering notes of spiced fruit unique from New Riff's flagship Rye.
BARREL PROOF WITHOUT CHILL FILTRATION
95% HEIRLOOM BALBOA RYE
5% MALTED RYE
AGED AT LEAST 4 YEARS
100 PROOF
NOSE
Clean ripe oak, controlled & even. With time, develops waxy/honeyed (yet not sweet) fruits. Water yields colorful (black-blue-red skinned) rye fruits and spice
TASTE
Rounded and full-bodied, mid-palate of spiced fruit compote
FINISH
Very long and simply gorgeous, as the fruits are subtly shaded with many spices (clove, wintergreen, nutmeg)