We’ve teamed up with WhistlePig and four award-winning chefs for an exclusive, flavorful, and fragrant Rye Whiskey.
In 2007, WhistlePig team bought the farm — actually a plot of land in Vermont lovingly named
WhistlePig Farm. They teamed up with the late-great master distiller
Dave Pickerell — formerly of Maker’s Mark — to bring
genuine Rye Whiskey back to the forefront of American Whiskeys. It took a lot of time, patience, experimentation, and reinvestment, but they have grown to produce five
award-winning core products and have experimented with a variety of finished wood
special edition Whiskeys too.
OK… here at
Flaviar we are pretty excited about this. We’ve partnered with the good folks at WhistlePig to create this
special edition Rye Whiskey. We brought four world-class, James Beard Nominated chefs to the WhistlePig farm and turned them loose among the casks to help us
blend something new — Chefs
Michael Gulotta from New Orleans;
Jamie Malone from Minneapolis;
David Posey from Chicago; and
Justin Woodward from Portland. What they came up with is a rich blend of
twelve year-old WhistlePig high Rye (95% Rye/5% malted barley) finished in a variety of Wine casks, including 40% Madeira, 30% Sherry, 20% Port, and 10% Sauternes.
Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that classically-trained chefs selected casks of Spirit finished in famous Wines from classic food pairings. And you will not be surprised just how
great the flavor profile is. And this special release of
WhistlePig X Flaviar Chef’s Blend 2019 is limited to
1000 bottles.
For
more info on this
special collaboration, visit
WhistlePig X Flaviar.
Smartass Corner:
What the heck is a "whistle pig" anyway? Even though all WhistlePig Whiskey labels are adorned with the sketch of a tuxedo-clad hog, the words whistlepig, groundhog, and woodchuck all refer to the same animal.