Cat's Eye Distillery

GENE NASSIF On Light Whiskey: “I didn’t live through the ’70s. I think that allowed me to look at [light whiskey] objectively,” says Eugene Nassif, a 25-year-old lawyer by trade, who helps source single barrels of whiskey for the Iowa-based Cat’s Eye Distillery, which recently released a 13-year-old light whiskey that Nassif had acquired. “While light whiskey may have gotten a bad rap when it was young, as it aged, it developed into something truly special.”

Nassif Family Reserve was first developed by co-founder Gene Nassif as a whiskey he could enjoy with his family and friends for his wedding. The whiskey was enjoyed so much that he decided to bottle it as a permanent, entry-level whiskey for the Obtainium brand. Nassif Family Reserve is a blend of 50% 14-year light whiskey from MGP and 50% 3-year 10-month bourye (a blend of 36 rye bourbon and 95 rye distillate aged together in new oak). The blend is bottled at 107 proof. The result is a whiskey that is both approachable for a novice, great in cocktails, yet complex enough to be enjoyed neat by a whiskey enthusiast.

 This blend of rum, was sourced from both the Caribbean and Americas. Aged a minimum of five years, these rums were finished in new oak, used whiskey barrels, and used port barrels. The end result is a far smoother rum than any other you have tried.