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High West
51%
4-12 Years
Released in June, this is the 2025 edition of The Prisoner's Share, a whiskey blend from the Park City, Utah-based distillery High West. It's made up of 4-12-year-old straight rye and straight bourbon whiskeys, finished in The Prisoner Red Blend wine barrels. Bottled at 102 proof, this whiskey has a suggested retail price of $174.99.
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Lots of sweet, jammy wine character on the nose. Blueberry jam, blackberries, strawberries, plus clove, vanilla custard and tannin.
The palate delivers a pleasant mouthfeel — not thin by any means, but not super viscous, either — and some faint heat. Red wine character and tannins ooze across the palate, followed by rich caramel cake, butterscotch and a pinch of clove and tobacco.
Tobacco, tannin, charred oak, clove, plum and a bit of spearmint gum.
Red wine is one of the most challenging finishes to keep in check, and High West does a good job here. The wine character is heavy but doesn't drown out the whiskey; red wine is the most prominent part of the palate, but you still get rich bourbon notes and some rye spice. It works and is a very enjoyable whiskey with a solid balance of soft and sweet notes, bitter tannin and jammy red fruit notes.
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