I was reading about Sagamore Whiskey’s new Bottled in Bond Straight Rye Whiskey. It’s rolling out nationally now, aged at least four years, bottled at 100 proof, made in one distilling season by one distiller — all the old rules, still standing like a stubborn uncle at a wedding.
They’re making it at their distillery in Maryland, which used to be a steel mill. Iron turned to rye. Same stubbornness, different vessel.
The label says ‘Sagamore’. I don’t know who Sagamore was. Maybe a horse. Maybe a promise. Maybe just a name they liked the weight of.
