Redwood Empire Haystack Needle Single Barrel

Classification: Straight Bourbon
Distillery: Undisclosed
Mashbill: Varying depending on the specific cask, often featuring high-rye bourbon typically 72% Corn, 18% Rye, 5% Wheat, 5% Malted Barley
Age: 8 Years
Proof: Single Barrel Cask Strength so vary between 114-118 proof

This isn’t just a single barrel. This is the barrel. The chosen one. The overachiever that looked at the other barrels and said, “Hold my beer.” (pun intended)

Nose: Caramel, vanilla, toasted oak — classic, confident, strutting in like it owns the rickhouse. Then dried fruit and warm baking spices show up and crank the volume. The high proof doesn’t whisper. It kicks the door open.

Palate: Dark toffee and honey roll in thick, followed by roasted nuts that feel like they’ve been flexing in the barrel for years. Then cinnamon and clove tag-team your taste buds, and just when you think you’ve mapped it out — boom — dark chocolate slides in like a plot twist. The oak from extended aging isn’t just background noise either…it’s depth.

Finish: Long. Warming. Spiced caramel and toasted oak hang around like they paid rent. There’s a subtle nuttiness that lingers, and the heat settles in like a satisfied grin. You don’t sip this. You experience it.

Overall: Redwood Empire didn’t come to play. They found the needle in the haystack and bottled it at full power. It’s intense without being reckless, layered without being chaotic, and bold without losing balance.

If you love single barrels and high-proof bourbon that makes you sit up straighter in your chair — this is your bottle.