• First Edition
  • First Edition
  • First Edition
  • First Edition

Hemingway Rye

First Edition

Regular price
750ml / 102 Proof / 51%ABV
Version

A Blend of Straight Rye Whiskeys finished in rum-seasoned Oloroso Sherry Casks.

Pour your story straight or on the rocks and have Hemingway at your home bar with our First Edition Rye, available for online purchase soon. Please allow up to two weeks for shipping.

Blend

90% — 6 y/o Indiana Straight Rye Whiskey (95/5)

10% — 4 y/o Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey (95/5)

Tasting Notes

Nose: Ryegrass, vanilla, raspberry, raisins, baking spices and oak wood.

Palate: Big bold notes of orange and
other assorted dark fruits balanced perfectly with hints of chocolate and caramel all balanced perfectly with plenty of spices like clove and nutmeg.

  • the whiskey community is talking

  • “Double Platinum”

    “Full bodied complexity and a gorgeous mouthfeel, and a warming, cinnamon finish.”

    ASCOT AAWARDS

  • “97 points”

    “The richness placates the senses with a voluptuous, warm mouth feel.”

    TASTING PANEL MAGAZINE

  • “This stuff is one of the best new ryes of 2023.”

    UPROXX

  • “It's really good! There's something to this rum seasoned cask.”

    Bourbon Pursuit
  • ★★★★★

    “Hemingway Whiskey Launches With Some Kentucky Heavyweights At Helm.”

    The Whiskey Wash
  • ★★★★★

    “We got to taste the sample of their whiskey and came away impressed.”

    Robb Report
  • ★★★★★

    “Beautiful chocolate, raspberry, fig, really liked it!”

    Fred Minnick

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    The Hemingway Press

    Our modern take on the classic Presbyterian – crisp and refreshing with just a hint of sour. Perfectly paired with good food, sunshine, and long days of living your story one sip at a time.
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    Hemingway Sour

    A drink of Hemingway and Fitzgerald in the wild days of 1920s Paris. A cocktail that Hemingway wrote about and drank often. Read A Moveable Feast for more.
  • Straight Up

    Straight Up

    Whiskey, not too neat and not quite a cocktail. The way a distiller takes their glass after a day of turning stories into every bottle.
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  • rye perfected by master distillers

our craft

To craft this one-of-a-kind spirit, Master Distiller Ron Call teamed up with his sons, Master Distiller Jacob Call and Whiskey Storyteller Clayton Call to hand source, blend, and finish the highest quality straight rye whiskeys on today's market.

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  • over 300 years & 8 generations

OUR LEGACY

Ron Call and his sons Jacob and Clay, 7th and 8th Generation Distillers, have distilling in their blood with stories and lessons passed down for more than 300 hundred years.

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everyone has a story to tell

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