Crown noble collection4/17/2024 ![]() It does make you wonder: Where did this 16 year old rye actually come from? Anyone who's dabbled with Canadian rye whiskey usually notices it can taste a bit different than American-made rye whiskey. Yet it was late to releasing a whiskey labeled as a “rye” until 2015. Crown Royal, known for their extremely popular Blended Canadian Whisky and the more recent Crown Royal Peach, already features rye as its predominant grain. ![]() To make matters more complex, many American distilleries actually source rye from Canadian distilleries, with WhistlePig being one of the most well known. That’s not to say no high-aged rye whiskey is released in a given year, but there are far fewer compared to their Candanian counterparts. While rye is growing in popularity in the U.S., most of it is released in the 2-6 year old range. To drive home that point further, as the legend goes, when Canadian whiskey makers started adding rye to their mashbills it became so popular that even a whiskey with a low percentage of rye (or even none) in its mashbill was often still referred to as a “rye,” which has stuck to this day. Rye has remained popular and brands like Alberta Distillers Limited and Canadian Club (both owned by Beam) have held the torch and kept it burning far longer than anyone else. In the Canadian market, that isn’t necessarily the case. ![]() In the American market, rye whiskey has only recently become popular again after a long drought, and of the few distilleries that even make rye whiskey, they rarely age it for a considerable amount of time. ![]() High aged ryes are a bit of a unicorn in the whiskey world. ![]()
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