“So it's not just what is it like on its own, but even at 112 proof, what's going to stand up and stand out in a Manhattan.” You can find DeGroff’s Manhattan recipe at the NYDC site. “As you might imagine, Dale, I-don't-care-what-the-proof-is, is going to experiment with these samples in cocktails,” Katz says. “And Dale has been a major influence on my life, my livelihood, and not just my growth as a person involved in spirits and cocktails, but how I think about drink individually and as part of an ongoing culture, specifically as a New Yorker.” The barrel that he wound up picking is described by DeGroff (on the NYDC website) as having “a lovely balance of fruit and spice.” Of course, this being Dale DeGroff, he wasn’t about to let its high ABV dissuade him from mixing it. “The single barrel selections are the most fun for me because it's one person's perspective,” Katz says. Times being what they are, the barrel selection process was done remotely, with Katz sending DeGroff eight barrel samples. “I wouldn't call our whiskey in its infancy any longer,” Katz says, “but we're firmly in adolescence." The Anniversary Selection is aged almost 6 1/2 years, and bottled at a cask strength of 56% ABV. Ragtime Rye debuted in 2015 as a three-year-old whiskey today, it’s a blend aged between three and six years. In 2015, a group of distilleries including Tuthilltown and NYDC formed the Empire Rye Association, which mandated, among other things, that Empire rye whiskeys be distilled from a mash bill of at least 75% New York-grown rye. After the law was passed - thanks in large part to lobbying by Ralph Erenzo, the founder of Hudson Valley-based Tuthilltown Spirits - the craft distilling movement throughout New York State exploded, with NYDC, Kings County, Finger Lakes Distilling, and a few others leading the charge. That threshold was lowered drastically, provided the distilleries use 75% New York-sourced grain in all their mash bills. What was going on before then? Until the Farm Distillery Act became law in New York in 2007, the financial threshold for starting a distillery in the state was impossibly high for virtually all would-be distillers.
officially opened for business on Repeal Day, December 5, in 2011, which oddly enough makes it one of the oldest distilleries in New York. A Decade-Old… And Already An Elder Statesman
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