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15 STARS Founders Reserve Fine Aged Rye

Rye 15 STARS
  • Distiller

    Various

  • Bottler

    15 STARS

  • ABV

    47.5%

  • Age

    8–14 Years

  • Price $100 to $199.99

Released in June 2025, 15 STARS Founders Reserve Fine Aged Rye is a blend of rye whiskeys from Kentucky, Indiana and Tennessee, aged eight, nine, 13 and 14 years. Bottled at 95 proof, it's a limited release available for a suggested retail price of $139. This is the inaugural batch of the release. Our sample was bottle No. 42.

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Aggregated Reviews
  • Raided Score: 92
  • The Whiskey Wash
  • By Charles Steele
  • While few things in life are perfect, the combo here is really classic and carefully crafted rye whiskey.
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  • Raided Score: 85
  • Breaking Bourbon
  • By Eric Hasman
  • 15 Stars Founder’s Reserve Fine Aged Rye is a more aged and complex blend of ryes from multiple states with improved flavors compared to its predecessor, though its sub-100 proof slightly hinders its full potential.
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  • Raided Score: 88
  • The Whiskey Reviewer
  • By Richard Thomas
  • The nose carried cinnamon, spearmint and melted table sugar in the main, with a solid note of musty oak. Sipping on Founder’s Reserve yields candy corn plus vanilla at first, before yielding to ginger and cloves, and then finally peppery wood.
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  • Raided Score: 92
  • Drinkhacker
  • By Drew Beard
  • “Fine Aged” it may all be, but this one doesn’t drink with quite the same maturity as, say, a Michter’s 10 Year Old Rye or even the recent Bulleit 12 Years Old.
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  • Raided Score: 90
  • The Daily Pour
  • By David Morrow
  • A wonderful, complex rye.
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House Review
  • Nose:

    The nose is nicely balanced — oaky, sweet, spicy and floral. Oak and tannin are joined by tea, molasses, clove, lavender, peppercorn, gingerbread and sarsaparilla.

  • Taste:

    Moderate mouthfeel. Oak, ginger, clove, caramel, tea, apricot, candied lemon and a nice flair of toasted oak.

  • Finish:

    The toasted oak note continues onto the finish, followed by peppercorns, sassafras, tannin, powdered ginger and a touch of frosting.

  • Overall:

    A wonderful, complex rye. It's not my favorite release to date from 15 STARS — which is consistently putting out excellent whiskey — but it's very good.

  • Score:

    90

  • Disclosure: The producer provided this sample to review free of charge, and without expectation of review or rating.

  • By David Morrow
  • Our in house critic rates spirits on a scale of 0-10 (10 best) and is aggregated the same as external sources