Contact: Invoice Straub
Electronic mail: [email protected]
4 Gate Whiskey Firm Broadcasts Launch #13
and Rolls Out Single Barrel Program together with Non-public Choose Casks
Batch 13
“River Kelvin Rye”
8 Yr Previous Straight Rye Whiskey
LOUISVILLE, KY, Could twenty fifth, 2021- 4 Gate Whiskey Firm has introduced the second launch of its River Kelvin Rye, a straight rye whiskey bottled at barrel proof, non-chill filtered. The primary launch of River Kelvin Rye was a 7-Yr Indiana-Distilled Straight Rye blended by Invoice Staub, the corporate’s’ Chief Mixing Officer. This yr’s launch can also be blended by Straub and is a yr older, clocking in at a mature 8 years previous. It’s bottled at 113 proof. 2,470 bottles have been produced. The Mash Invoice is 95% Rye and 5% Malted Barley.
“Like the primary River Kelvin Rye launch, we wished to let our shoppers style the whiskey earlier than it was completed as a result of we’ve got various completed variations of this whiskey popping out within the subsequent 18 months,” Mentioned Straub.
A kind of completed releases may be tasted within the firm’s model new single barrel program, which features a restricted variety of Non-public Choose Casks, during which shops and teams should buy a whole barrel of 4 Gate Bourbon or Rye whiskey and have it completed in a model new toasted barrel from Kelvin Cooperage for 30 further days.
“The response was unimaginable,” Mentioned Chief Barrel Officer Bob D’Antoni. “We have now single barrel bottles transport out to all 4 of our distribution states plus all of our on-line companions.”
The corporate made 20 barrels obtainable for single barrel bottlings, 9 barrels of 8-year-old Straight Rye Whiskey, 6 barrels of 7-year-old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, and 5 barrels of 6-year-old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. The barrels have been bottled both as non-public choose casks bought by shops and shoppers, or as “chosen by the CBOs of 4 Gate, referring to Chief Barrel Officer, D’Antoni, and Chief Mixing Officer, Straub. All the one barrel bottles have {custom} labels with custom-cut and burned picket neck tags. Mash Payments of the Non-public Choose Cask Rye is 95% Rye and 5% Malted Barley. The 2 Kentucky Straight bourbons share a mash invoice of 75% Corn, 21% Rye, and 4% Malted Barley.
Straub and D’Antoni run the corporate because the Chief Mixing Officer and Chief Barrel Officer, respectively. With their roots in Louisville, Straub has leveraged his data of bourbon and the trade as founder and Editor-In-Chief of ModernThirst.com since 2014. As a profitable native entrepreneur, D’Antoni has used his connections to determine relationships to get his palms on some terrific bourbon.
A neighborhood collaboration like this feeds into the 4 Gate Whiskey Firm philosophy: should you begin with one of the best whiskey, and leverage a number of the best-regarded consultants within the subject on the results of barrels, you wind up with an incredible whiskey that each connoisseurs and collectors alike will admire.
River Kelvin Rye is on the market in June in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia and on-line by Seelbachs.com, BourbonOutfitter.com, and Caskers.com at a MSRP of $185.
Non-public Choose Casks from 4 Gate Whiskey can be found by choose retailers and on-line sellers now, and as CBO picks in Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, and Georgia at a MSRP of $225.
4 Gate Whiskey Firm’s merchandise have been launched since 2019 to vital acclaim, with each batch reviewed by Whisky Advocate incomes rating of 90 factors or larger (90-94 = “Excellent; a whisky of superior character and elegance”), and a number of well-regarded writers and on-line reviewers naming numerous batches amongst the highest 10 American whiskeys of 2019 and 2020.
4 Gate Whiskey Firm began in 2018 with the aim of releasing a number of distinctive batches of whiskey merchandise every year. With its first product launch of 11-year-old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey completed in sherry-rum casks in April 2019, the group is happy to unveil the opposite small batch merchandise with distinctive finishes in years to return. Be taught extra at fourgatewhiskey.com, like us on Facebook.com and comply with us on Twitter @four_gate and Instagram @fourgatewhiskey.
Kelvin Cooperage, based in Glasgow, Scotland in 1963 and now based mostly in Louisville, KY, is a full-service family-owned cooperage supplying new and used barrels to wine, spirits, and beer producers world wide. For extra info, go to Kelvincooperage.com
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