Redwood Empire Haystack Needle Double Barrel 14 Year Cabernet Finish

Haystack Needle Double Barrel is fourteen-year Indiana bourbon finished a few weeks in a Sonoma Cabernet cask and bottled at 110 proof — Amongst the Whiskey gave it 5 out of 5 and called it a tremendous pour. Redwood Empire sits in Graton, Sonoma County, in the redwoods west of Santa Rosa, run by Purple Brands with master distiller Jeff Duckhorn, and plants a tree for every bottle sold; Haystack Needle is the house's oldest-stock label, and this release is a fourteen-year MGP bourbon — 75% corn, 21% rye, 4% malted barley — given a brief second barrel in a Cabernet Sauvignon cask from the wine country next door, Duckhorn's philosophy being minimal finishing that shows the whiskey. Amongst the Whiskey: rich, syrupy fruit — stewed plum, cranberry, blackberry cobbler — with leather and aged oak on the nose; citrus and florals opening into waves of tannic red fruit, raspberry, and elderberry on the palate; cardamom, nutmeg, molasses, blackcurrant, tart cherry, and honey oats, with a long hot-toddy linger. Bourbon Culture and The Right Spirit both rank it among the best fourteen-year bottles at the price. Honest note: fourteen-year MGP at 110 proof is rare on its own, and the Cabernet is a whisper, not a wine bomb — for the age collector and the Napa drinker who wants both in one glass; and you're buying a tree. Neat, in a Glencairn, one glass. Haystack Needle, fourteen years.

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