Great Jones - New York Straight Rye Whiskey (750ml)

 4 years old

Crafted from 100% New York-grown rye grain

Aged in American Oak barrels

Layered with notes of vanilla, dried fruit from the orchard, and iconic rye pepper

A spicy love letter to our state’s hardiest grain

Great Jones Rye is crafted from ingredients grown in the legendary Black Dirt region of Warwick Valley, NY. Once the site of a prehistoric lake, the soil here is renowned for its nutrient-rich content which imbues a distinctive spice in our whiskeys. Our Rye is cut with Catskill Mountain water to create a uniquely New York spirit.

..Great Jones is the dream of Juan Domingo Beckmann, an 11th-generation spirits maker and chief executive who is the founder of Proximo Spirits, a liquor company based in Jersey City, N.J., that owns the new distillery, and whose family owns and operates the tequila giant Jose Cuervo.

“Up until this point, most great American cities have a major distillery to call home, with one notable exception — Manhattan,” said Mr. Beckmann (though a vodka distillery, Our/New York, did open in Chelsea in 2018). In the past 20 years, interest in and sales of American whiskey have skyrocketed, and new craft distilleries have opened coast to coast. “New York is my second home and I’ve always been in love with the culinary scene,” he said. “I wanted to create a whiskey that celebrates the best of New York state agriculture.”