What's your favorite straight rye whiskey bottling?

[camduncan]

I've only ever tried Jim Beam Rye (the only Rye sold in Australia as far as I know) and Van Winkle 13yo Rye.. My bottle of Sazerac is still unopened. Of the two, I prefer the Beam as an every day drink, keeping the Van Winkle for when I want something special...

Although if the Van Winkle was easily obtained in Australia, I'd definately drink it over the Beam..

[squire]

Currently have open pours of the Saz18, Hirsch13, and Van Winkle13. Believe I like the VW most.

Squire

[TNbourbon]

Funny, but though I don't really love (or hate, for that matter) rye-heavy bourbons like OGD and Bulliet, I've never had a straight rye I didn't like a lot.

In order, from what I've had, I'd rank them thus:

<ul type="square"> [*]Van Winkle 12yo Old Time Rye

[*]Sazerac 18yo

[*]Van Winkle Family Reserve 13yo

[*]Wild Turkey

[*]Jim Beam

I'm still looking for Rittenhouse. Old Overholt is available, but just haven't gotten one yet.

[BrbnBorderline]

Opened another bottle of VWFRR. I am really enjoying it the second time around. Puzzling. As of yet, it has defied a taste description, this I will have to try more diligently to accomplish the task this weekend.

[matthew0715]

I've only tried Jim Beam Rye, based on Jim Murray's rave review. I just bought VWFR rye and was wondering: since Van Winkle makes their bourbon with wheat as the secondary grain, is theirs a wheated rye? Or do they use corn like most (all?) of the others?

Matt