Baking spices | Caramel | Brown sugar | Burnt brown butter | Oak | Dried tobacco leaf | Faint mint leaf | Faint cinnamon apple chips

Butterscotch sauce | Cinnamon stick | Pleasing rye spice | Faint mulled cider | Aged oak | Green peppercorn

Burnt brown butter | Dried tobacco | Heavy charred oak | Rye spice | Light lingering spice & dry oak

Rye Fidelity Bottled in Bond is produced by Broad Branch Distillery out of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The distillery was founded in 2014, and the company currently produces their Rye Fidelity rye line and Big Winston bourbon line, along other various spirits. For their bottled in bond rye, the company states that Rye Fidelity is “North Carolina’s only 6yr+ five barrel 100% straight Rye Whiskey.”

The whiskey opens with a pleasing aroma filled with an equal combination of aged, sweet, and spicy scents. The palate goes down that same path, but entirely new flavor notes step in to play the various aged, sweet, and spicy notes. While the flavors are more straightforward, it’s still an appreciated switch-up that keeps things interesting. Ending on focused spice and heavy charred oak notes, the finish proceeds to wrap up quickly.

Rye Fidelity Bottled in Bond can best be described as a mild-mannered whiskey. By being bottled in bond, the 100 proof allows it to deliver pleasing flavors, yet they never come across as overtly bold or underdeveloped. Instead, they take a Goldilocks approach, delivered in a mild manner that is easy to appreciate.

The rye in review is from batch A26.