{"id":24035,"date":"2017-05-24T14:34:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T13:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/?p=24035"},"modified":"2017-05-24T14:34:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T13:34:40","slug":"woodford-reserve-extends-distillery-series-new-blended-rye-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/woodford-reserve-extends-distillery-series-new-blended-rye-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodford Reserve extends Distillery Series with new Blended Rye edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woodford Reserve has expanded its Distillery Series with the launch of a blended rye whiskey \u2013 the first of three rye whiskeys to be released under the range this summer.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe blend contains the original 100% rye mash distillate used in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/copy-234\/\">Woodford Reserve<\/a> Master\u2019s Collection Aged Cask Rye expression, which was matured in used Woodford Reserve Bourbon barrels.<\/p>\n<p>Distilled in 2004, select quantities of this rye were held back to continue maturing until 2017, when it was blended with the last of the original Distiller\u2019s Select Straight Rye \u2013 a recipe of 53% rye, 33% corn and 14% malted barley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe opportunity to blend two outstanding rye whiskey profiles was too good to pass up,\u201d said Chris Morris, master distiller at Woodford Reserve\u2019s parent company Brown-Forman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the entire Woodford Reserve Series concept is about flavour innovation, this whiskey series expression is sure to impress whiskey aficionados.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bottled at 45.2% abv, Woodford Reserve Blended Rye Whiskey carries an age statement of 11 years.<\/p>\n<p>The expression will be followed by the launch of the Woodford Reserve Toasted Oak Rye in June this year. It consists of rye mash distillate that was matured in used Woodford Reserve Bourbon barrels and finished in new Woodford Reserve Double Oaked barrels for two years. Details of a third \u201cspeciality barrel-finished\u201d rye will be revealed in coming months.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See more at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.woodfordreserve.com\">https:\/\/www.woodfordreserve.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woodford Reserve has expanded its Distillery Series with the launch of a blended rye whiskey \u2013 the first of three rye whiskeys to be released [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[704,1112,4612,721,69,39,4613,4611,1111],"class_list":["post-24035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-bourbon","tag-brown-forman","tag-distillery-series","tag-duty-free-shopping","tag-duty-free","tag-dutyfree","tag-rye-whiskey","tag-woodford","tag-woodford-reserve"],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}