Dorothy Arzner Rye Whiskey

Description

Our small batch, 3-year-old whiskey ensures a full complexity and rich aroma.

We do “grain to glass” ensuring a product unrivaled in its quality. We mill, mash, and ferment the grain to generate the initial alcohol content that is then condensed via distillation.

ABV 45%

Base Spirit - 70% Rye Berry/Rye Malt Blend and 30% Malted Barley Blend

Aroma

Dark chocolate, dried cherry, and freshly baked dark rye bread components come forth from the rye grain. As the whiskey breathes, notes of leather and vanilla lift, which offers just enough of a sweet component drawing you in for more.

Taste

Through the meticulous choices of the distiller, Dorothy Rye Whiskey brings forth a full palate of sweet, dark blackberry and dried cherry fruitiness. Warm roasted oak tones provide dimension with a finish of rich dark chocolate and brioche bread.

RECIPES

By Great Women Spirits Intermediate 3 min

Whiskey Sour

Ingredients

2 oz Dorothy Arzner Rye Whiskey
¾ oz lemon juice
½ oz simple syrup
½ oz egg white
Garnish: Angostura bitters

Directions

Add Dorothy Arzner Rye Whiskey, lemon juice, simple syrup, and egg white to a shaker and dry-shake for 30 seconds without ice. Add ice and shake again until well-chilled. Strain into a coupe glass. Garnish with 3 or 4 drops of Angostura bitters.

By Great Women Spirits Intermediate 3 min

Rye Old Fashioned

Ingredients

2 oz Dorothy Arzner Rye Whiskey
sugar cube
dash of water
2 dashes of Angostura bitters
Garnish: orange twist, lemon peel, or cherry

Directions

Place sugar cube in a rocks glass, add bitters and water. Muddle until the sugar is dissolved. Fill glass with ice, add Dorothy Arzner Rye Whiskey, and stir until mixed. Twist the lemon peel over the drink’s surface to express the peel’s oils, garnish with the lemon peel and cherry.

By Great Women Spirits Intermediate 3 min

Sazerac

Ingredients

Absinthe, to rinse
1 sugar cube
½ tsp cold water
3 dashes Peychaud’s bitters
2 dashes of Angostura bitters
1 ¼ oz Dorothy Arzner Rye Whiskey
1 ¼ oz Agnesi 1799 Brandy
Garnish: lemon peel

Directions

In a mixing glass, muddle the sugar cube, water, Peychaud’s and Angostura bitters. Add Dorothy Arzner Rye Whiskey and Agnesi 1799 Brandy, fill the mixing glass with ice and stir until well-chilled. Strain into the prepared glass. Garnish with lemon peel.

Meet Dorothy Arzner

American. 3 January 1897 - 1 October 1979

Dorothy Arzner made history when she became the first woman to direct a sound-synchronized film, Manhattan Cocktail(1928). While this film is now lost, its success led executives at Paramount Pictures––the studio where Arzner worked and one of the “Big Five” during Hollywood’s Golden Age––to entrust her to direct a string of what were called “women’s pictures.” She secured her reputation by deviating from the classic formulas of Hollywood storylines, and instead portrayed women through complex characterizations rather than as cinematic stereotypes. It was for this reason that feminist film scholars of the 1970s adopted Arzner as a living emblem of their theories, a categorization she rejected saying, “I want my work to be judged on its merits. Intelligence has no sex.”

Arzner had over 15 films to her directing credit by 1943––launching the careers of many actors including Katharine Hepburn and Rosalind Russell––and about a decade later joined the faculty at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television, one of her students being a young Francis Ford Coppola. Great Women Spirits acknowledges the trailblazing convictions of Dorothy Arzner with the additional honor of releasing its Straight Rye Whiskey in her name.