Uncle Nearest Rye

Nearest Green Distillery’s first release of rye whiskey. Uncle Nearest Rye is an uncut, unfiltered straight rye with a very limited release volume. The Uncle Nearest brand honors the contributions of “Uncle” Nearest Green: the godfather of Tennessee whiskey and the master who taught a man by the name of Jack Daniel how to make whiskey.

With Uncle Nearest Rye, the Nearest team started with that same transparency straight out of the gate. “The funny thing about Tennessee,” the label states, “is for all our stunning farms and incredible farmers, we can’t grow rye worth a damn. A grain so easily grown in other states gets choked up in our soil. The whiskey stocks that make up Uncle Nearest Rye were purchased from another producer located in New York, who had sourced this rye previously from Canada. The 100 percent rye mashbill certainly narrows down the potential suppliers.