Frey Ranch Farm Strength Uncut Bourbon review: Nevada's Frey Ranch stakes a claim as one of the country's best small distilleries with this unique cask strength whiskey. bourbon whiskey cocktails
Over years of tasting spirits, I’ve come to believe that one of the best things you can say about a smaller, independent craft distillery is that it has its own unique niche or flavor profile. Suffice to say, with hundreds of small distilleries in the country in 2023, many of them are making products such as whiskey that, although palatable, taste rather similar to one another.
Frey Ranch Distillery has actually been in operation since 2006, but it’s really been in the last few years that they’ve come into their own and achieved a lot more national recognition for their whiskey program as many of their products reached a moderate level of maturity.
On the nose, Frey Ranch Farm Strength Uncut Bourbon balances itself neatly between impressions of sweetness, grain and more earthy and herbal tones. Up front there’s caramel and clove-like spice, with an underlying, slightly musty/earthy graininess and suggestion of some of the biscuity/bready quality possibly derived from the wheat or malted barley. At the same time, I’m also getting significant rye with more of a floral bent to it, along with brighter mint.
On the palate, most of these same impressions hold true–I’m getting plenty of caramel, honey and mint, combined with significant rye spice. The clove is joined by a little more cinnamon, but the star of the show is a complex sort of herbaceousness from the rye and maybe from the wheat as well–it’s floral and maybe a little bit resinous, but doesn’t lose track of its moderate residual sweetness. Over time, things turn more savory with pronounced tobacco notes, balanced by sweet herbaceousness.
All in all, Frey Ranch’s Farm Strength Uncut Bourbon manages to stand out and present a distinct aesthetic for itself, and that is a major part of building a following in the whiskey world these days. Their concise focus and execution have built the company into one of the country’s best small distilleries.
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