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Highest Rated Whiskey This Year

Age: Finish Time: 44 months

The Old Jett Brothers

Sparta,
Kentucky
Outstanding
The Old Jett Brothers from Neeley Family Distillery represents the kind of small-batch bourbon that makes Kentucky distillery visits so rewarding. This French oak finished bourbon clocks in at 114.8…
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Noah's Mill bourbon bottle on bar counter at The Pourch, dimly lit ambiance.
Bourbon, Straight Bourbon Whiskey
Kentucky

Noah's Mill

Willett’s High-Proof Bourbon Delivers Complex Spice and Sweetness

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114.3 Proof
Age: No age statement, at least 4 years
Excellent
Wigle Reserve Pennsylvania Straight Rye
Straight Rye Whiskey
Pennsylvania

Wigle Reserve Pennsylvania Straight Rye

Pittsburgh’s craft rye whiskey offers a gentle introduction to the category

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84 Proof
Age: 4 Years
Excellent
$50
High Bank Small Batch
Small Batch, Wheated
Ohio

High Bank Small Batch - Batch #2

A wheated hometown pour that makes a weeknight feel just fine

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93 Proof
Age: No age statement, Maybe 5 years
Recommend
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Small Batch, Straight Bourbon Whiskey
Kentucky

Frank August Small Batch Straight Bourbon

A fruity nose gives way to creamy vanilla and black pepper in this Bardstown bourbon that punches above its weight

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100 Proof
Age: At least 4 years
Excellent
$80
Minglewood Bottled In Bond Wheat Whiskey
Bottled-In-Bond, Single Barrel, Straight Wheat Whiskey
Ohio

Minglewood Bottled In Bond Wheat Whiskey

This 100-proof wheat whiskey out of a converted Wooster ice house leans hard into honey and cereal sweetness, and it’s the rare BIB that tastes like dessert without losing its grain-forward backbone.

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100 Proof
Age: At least 6 years
Excellent
$70
Middle West Spirits Cask Strength Wheated Whiskey
Straight Wheat Whiskey
Ohio

Cask Strength Straight Wheat Whiskey

Second pour in a cask-strength flight that didn’t quite steal the show, but it sure held its own

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125.1 Proof
Age: At least 4 years
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