New Riff Single Malt Whiskey (2025)
New Riff Single Malt Whiskey (2025)
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New Riff’s 2025 Single Malt release highlights the creativity and technical expertise of New Riff’s distilling team, exploring new dimensions of malt whiskey. This year’s blend features a combination of three mashbills finished in six different casks, creating a layered and complex exploration of flavors with depth and nuance. The final blend was re-barreled into used oak for an extended maturation period, something we tried for the first time in this release, with exciting results. Showcasing some of our oldest malt whiskeys up to 10 years of age, New Riff Single Malt marries the time-honored heritage of malted barley with Kentucky’s sour mash traditions, perfectly defining a New Riff on an Old Tradition.
THE 2025 BLEND INCLUDES:
• 41% Maris Otter: A 1960s English ale malt.
• 41% Barleywine-style: Influenced by high gravity, heavy-bodied barleywine ales.
• 18% Scottish Peated Malted Barley: Scottish peated barley malt, heavily smoked and pungent.
• 41% Maris Otter: A 1960s English ale malt.
• 41% Barleywine-style: Influenced by high gravity, heavy-bodied barleywine ales.
• 18% Scottish Peated Malted Barley: Scottish peated barley malt, heavily smoked and pungent.
AGING CASKS:
New charred oak barrels, Used Bourbon barrels, de-charred and toasted,
Used Bourbon barrels, de-charred and re-charred, Madeira casks, Oloroso Sherry
casks, Red wine (French oak,Taransaud cooperage).
New charred oak barrels, Used Bourbon barrels, de-charred and toasted,
Used Bourbon barrels, de-charred and re-charred, Madeira casks, Oloroso Sherry
casks, Red wine (French oak,Taransaud cooperage).
BOTTLED AT CASK STRENGTH WITHOUT CHILL FILTRATION
115.2 PROOF
AGED AT LEAST 7 YEARS
115.2 PROOF
AGED AT LEAST 7 YEARS
TASTING NOTES
NOSE
Broad, deep and heady, with many barrel notes (oaky, sherried oak, toasty); with time, it develops rich malty fruity grains; a splash of water advances complicated grainy detail, showing grassy-mineral malt, dark fruit cacao nibs, orange-lemon citrus, all balanced with a generous layer of smoke.
Broad, deep and heady, with many barrel notes (oaky, sherried oak, toasty); with time, it develops rich malty fruity grains; a splash of water advances complicated grainy detail, showing grassy-mineral malt, dark fruit cacao nibs, orange-lemon citrus, all balanced with a generous layer of smoke.
PALATE
Straight-up, the oak is forward and layered (oloroso sherry, red wine, Madeira, new oak), chewy texture, and drying but not tannic; with water, a strikingly juicy entry, bright fruit and citrus peel; it is dryish and tinged with sweetening fruits; a BIG Kentucky-style body, savory-soft thick-cut texture with red and dark fruit, cocoa powder, grassy-nutty malt, a shading of sherry oak and an introduction of warm smoke.
Straight-up, the oak is forward and layered (oloroso sherry, red wine, Madeira, new oak), chewy texture, and drying but not tannic; with water, a strikingly juicy entry, bright fruit and citrus peel; it is dryish and tinged with sweetening fruits; a BIG Kentucky-style body, savory-soft thick-cut texture with red and dark fruit, cocoa powder, grassy-nutty malt, a shading of sherry oak and an introduction of warm smoke.
FINISH
Exceptionally zesty, delightfully rich, the fruited (raspberry, tangerine rind, bergamot-orange) components lift up in a smokey and leathery cloud, framed with the sherry-branded oak, late orange marmalade and a lingering peat smoke.
Exceptionally zesty, delightfully rich, the fruited (raspberry, tangerine rind, bergamot-orange) components lift up in a smokey and leathery cloud, framed with the sherry-branded oak, late orange marmalade and a lingering peat smoke.
THE LOT CODE: 25.3.6.6
Each annual release of New Riff Single Malt contains an informational code on the front of the label. In order from left to right, this code represents the year; the number of mashbills used in the blend; how many individual malted barleys are involved in the mashbills, and the number of different casks employed.
Each annual release of New Riff Single Malt contains an informational code on the front of the label. In order from left to right, this code represents the year; the number of mashbills used in the blend; how many individual malted barleys are involved in the mashbills, and the number of different casks employed.
