Please drink responsibly, you must be at least 21 years of age to drink alcoholic beverages. However, if you savor it slowly, we can attest that A Midwinter Night’s Dram will help you through the coldest night. This is how we feel about a dram of this whiskey. Lysander describes how quickly true love can vanish. Gather ‘mongst thy family and friends, and raise thy glass to winters that are "Swift as a shadow, short as any dream Brief as the lightning in the collied night." - Lysander, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, Scene 1, Wm. For us, A Midwinter Night’s Dram tastes like a proper Christmas plum pudding with lovely mulling spices, dried fruits, and crème anglaise. The rye forms a beautiful base of vanilla, caramel and cinnamon the port barrels enhance with plums and dried fruits the French oak provides a spice accent. This limited release whiskey is a sumptuous marriage of our Rendezvous Rye finished in both port and French oak barrels. One taste of A Midwinter Night’s Dram alongside a cozy fire will surely transport you to a dreamlike state. At High West, we consider whiskey an indispensable part of making it through the long cold winter. "Are you sure That we are awake? It seems to me That yet we sleep, we dream." - Demetrius, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 4, Scene 1 - Wm. It provides a medium-long finish with a peppermint candy finish that runs along the sides of the tongue.High West A Midwinter Night's Dram is a unique limited release of High West Rendezvous Rye. I also taste cinnamon, vanilla bean ice cream, figs, leather, and toasted oak. Palate: The rye spice is more front and center in the mouth than it was in the nose, though it’s friendly and gentle. There is rye spiciness, but not the earthy scents you sometimes find with rye whiskey. Nose: Sawdust, wet wood, cherries, and caramel sweetness. Source: High West Whisky Club Newsletter. High West Distillery A Midwinter Nights Dram Act 9 Scene 3 750ml A Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare. Park City, Utah.Īppearance: Deep bronze color, with legs that stick to the side of the glass. High West A Midwinter Night’s Dram Act 8 is bottled at 49.3 ABV (98.6 proof) and will be available in limited quantities beginning this month at a suggested retail price of 99.99. Vital stats: Blend of two straight ryes – one distilled by High West that’s 80% rye and 20% malted rye, and one sourced from MGP Ingredients that’s 95% rye and 5% barley ratio between the two ryes is not disclosed 98.6 proof/49.3% alcohol by volume MSRP of $100 for a 750 ml bottle. This limited release whiskey is a sumptuous marriage. Tasting Notes: A Midwinter Night’s Dram, Act 9, Scene 5 One taste of A Midwinter Nights Dram alongside a cozy fire will surely transport you to a dreamlike state. We use the best ingredients available and distill in a tradition copper pot still. It’s High West’s most sought-after annual release, and I’ve been looking forward to finding out whether it justifies all the attention – and to see what I missed out on in 2017. Choose either High West Double Rye + A Midwinter Nights Dram OR A Midwinter Nights Dram + American Prairie Bourbon and save today High West Distillery crafts spirits for people who want great taste, appreciate quality ingredients and want our personal touch. My brother and I had an enjoyable visit, and we enjoyed the the flight. There was no A Midwinter Night’s Dram available in the saloon at the time – or I don’t remember it in the flight we tasted, in any case – but they did have Double Rye! and Rendezvous Rye. We did, however, relish the majesty of the place and enjoyed some whiskey. The saloon likes to call itself “the only ski-in gastro-distillery in the world,” but we neither skied in nor ate anything. I happened to be in Utah in the fall of 2017, and stopped by High West’s Park City Saloon for a tasting flight. It continues to live up to that pledge today. High West’s first release, in 2007, was its Rendezvous Rye – still one of its signature annual bottlings. It didn’t use sourced juice and try to hide that fact it promoted the idea that it was buying good whiskey from others and blending and finishing it in distinctive ways. it was founded in 2006 as an unabashed blender. The High West Distillery has long been one of the more interesting whiskey brands on the American landscape.
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