High West Distillery 'Yippee Ki-Yay' Blended Straight Rye Whiskey 750ml

Product Description

We confess... we didn't coin the term "Yippee Ki-Yay." Moreover, we didn't paint the picture on the front label. It's an historic poster (Gift of The Coe Foundation and Henry B. Balink) now at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming (Centerofthewest.org, you really ought to visit). Furthermore, we didn't distill the whiskeys in this bottle (it's our Double Rye! -sourced whiskey-see highwest.com for details). However, we did come up with a combination that we think will make you say... Yippee Ki-Yay drinkers of horrible tasting cheap flavored uisge beatha! One day, just for fun, we put some rye whiskey into barrels originally used to age wine. When we mixed the 'vermouth-ed' (Vya, Madera, CA and the 'syrah-ed' (Qupe Santa MAria, CA) we discovered an all-natural, not disgustingly sweet blend of straight rye whiskeys for the rest of us. High West's Yippee Ki-Yay is great as an apertif on the ice, neat with dessert, on it's own, or try it in a Manhattan. this stuff rocks. So where did "Yippee Ki-Yay" come from? Is it a real expression of joy popular with cowboys in the 19th century Western United States? Is it part of the greatest one liner in movie history? Was it influenced by the phrase 'Yippie-yi-yo-ki-yay' from the 1936 hit song "I'm an Old Cow Hands from the Rio Grande" about a 20th-century cowboy who has little in common with cowpunchers of old and sung by Bing Crosby in the film "Rhythm on the Range" (also sung later on by Roy Rogers and Frank Sinatra) and considered one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time? We're not sure. But we are sure we like how we feel when we say it... and recommend you use it every chance you get. Founder, David Perkins Not Chill Filtered No Coloring or Flavoring Added