Tasted at Saratoga Whiskey Club Annual Club Dinner 2022. This Solera Aged Rum finished rye whiskey started as an experimental project when Doc Swinson’s found themselves with an excess of 5+ year rums from Trinidad, Venezuela, and Jamaica alongside a number of recently dumped bourbon casks. After dumping the aged rum they decided to employ the Solera aging method, a technique for blending and aging from the old world to create a rum cask rye whiskey. Their blend starts as two different rye whiskies from MGP. A 95% Rye 5% malted barley mash bill and a 51% rye 4% malted barley 45% corn mash bill, both 5+ years old. Once deemed ready, they blend the two together to make a base spirit of about 73% Rye. This is then diluted from its original cask strength of 120 to 103, the golden proof, before being added into the top row of the Solera. The whiskey is proofed down to bottle strength and rested before bottling.