On the subject of rye, Angel’s Envy is greatest recognized for its always-on, rum-finished expression. However over the previous few years, the model — beneath the steering of Grasp Distiller Owen Martin — has progressively expanded its rye lineup. That features an inaugural Cask Power Rye in 2023, which featured each Sauternes and toasted oak finishes. In 2025, Martin rolled out a distillery-only peated cask completed rye. That very same 12 months, we additionally noticed a (superb!) “Cellar Assortment” rye completed in tequila barrels. And in March 2026, Angel’s Envy introduced a brand new first for the model: a cask energy, age acknowledged rye whiskey.
Angel’s Envy 10 Yr Previous Cask Power Rye is definitely a part of a twin launch, alongside the model’s annual Cask Power Bourbon. (Followers might discover this marks a shift from Fall to Spring launch timing for Cask Power.) This primary age acknowledged, cask energy rye is mixed from two elements:
- A 6 12 months previous rye with a 4 12 months rum cask secondary maturation (~69% of the mix)
- A 12 12 months previous rye with a 4 month rum cask end (~31% of the mix)
Each whiskeys started as Kentucky straight rye and had been distilled between 2013 and 2015. (On this case, the ten 12 months age assertion refers back to the complete time in cask, not simply the preliminary virgin oak barrels.) Since Angel’s Envy started its personal distilling operations in 2016, that will point out these whiskeys had been sourced from different (undisclosed) Kentucky producers.
The ultimate product was bottled at 111.6 proof and carries a advised retail value of $270. Roughly 10,800 bottles can be accessible, all within the U.S. market.
Let’s see the way it tastes!
Angel’s Envy Cask Power Rye 10 Years Previous (2026) Assessment
On the nostril, we’ve obtained a right away marriage of rye and rum. Funky, overripe pineapple, guava, and papaya come first, together with a contact of shiny crimson maraschino cherry. However that’s simply an early hit, a bit just like the odor that comes from unwrapping a bit of tropical fruit gum. Rye will get extra dominant over time, with constructing aromas of cinnamon gum, sawgrass, and mint chocolate chip ice cream. There’s a nice quantity of oak as nicely — this can be a 10 12 months product, in any case — however it’s not so tannic as to detract from the enjoyable interaction between the bottom spirit and ending casks. A minimum of right here, this can be a whiskey that begins in a single quadrant and results in one other, however it didn’t lose me alongside the trail.
A primary sip is correct consistent with the nostril. Candy fructose and reasonably tart fruit lead. Rye character builds with every sip, and by the second style, allspice and baked clove are already accumulating on the midpalate. That sweetness will get pulled from fruit to blackstrap molasses, then as soon as once more towards very darkish cherry and a few leathery tannins. (The whiskey undoubtedly tastes older than it smells.) And I definitely wouldn’t name this an oak bomb, however that age assertion is carrying some precise, factual heft right here.
Finally I turned just a little torn. The pronounced wooden is bringing rather a lot to this whiskey, however the extra you sip, the additional it shifts away from the rum notes that made it enjoyable up entrance. However that’s a short lived gripe. The end folds again in its personal model of tropical fruit — extra grilled than ripe — for a mid-length, reasonably dry ultimate act that’s near the very best of each worlds.
All in all, it’s a really strong outing from Angel’s Envy, and hopefully a harbinger of what Owen Martin and his workforce can accomplish with more and more older shares. Assuming this can be a new baseline for cask energy rye, contemplate my curiosity piqued.
111.6 proof.
A- / $270
Angel’s Envy Cask Power Rye 10 Years Previous (2026)
USD270
