90 POINTS
Wine Enthusiast, 2020
Double Gold Medal
New York World Wine and Spirits Competition, September 23, 2018
★★★
Recommended
F. Paul Pacult's Spirit Journal, September 2016
Score: 88
"Wise beyond their age"
American Craft Spirits, September 22, 2010
Score: 87
(Silver Medal - Highly Recommended)
"Wild and wooly, but entertaining."
Beverage Testing Institute, February 24, 2011
Rating: 9.0
"Roundstone is a testament to the
notion that quality ingredients
have as much to do with a whiskey’s
success as its time in a barrel."
Paste Magazine, November 20, 2017
"[It’s] the Roundstone Rye that you should be
looking for. This rye has been lauded by
every whiskey critic, from [Jim] Murray to the
Washington Post."
Paste Magazine, September 19, 2015
"A bottle of sweet and spicy regular
Roundstone Rye should always be
within reach."
Men's Journal, September 3, 2014
Classic Manhattan
2 oz Catoctin Creek Roundstone Rye
1 oz Carpano Anitca sweet red Italian vermouth (The absolute best!)
1 dash bitters (Peychauds or your favorite)
1 tsp cherry juice
Brandied cherry for garnish
Pour into a mixing glass with crushed ice, stir, strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with a Maraschino cherry.
Horse's Neck
1½ oz Catoctin Creek Roundstone Rye
Splash of ginger ale
3 dashes lemon bitters
Lemon twist
1 large ice cube
Garnish ice cube with lemon twist. Drop into an old fashioned glass. Separately, stir together rye, ginger ale, and bitters with ice. Strain and pour over prepared glass.
I am Virginia
¾ oz fig simple syrup*
2 oz Catoctin Creek Roundstone Rye
Liberal dash of orange bitters
Orange peel to garnish
Combine fig simple syrup, bitters and rye in a mixing glass, stir and strain over fresh ice. Garnish with orange peel.
Fig simple syrup:
1 quart sugar
1 quart water
1 quart dried Virginia figs
Heat water over medium heat, add sugar and whisk until dissolved. Add figs, reduce heat to a low simmer for 20 minutes and remove from heat. Let cool. Strain through a fine chinois. Refrigerate.
Founded in 2009
Catoctin Creek® was founded by Becky and Scott Harris in 2009 as the first legal distillery in Loudoun County since before Prohibition. We are located in Purcellville, Virginia, in the heart of the Loudoun Valley. Virginia is the birthplace of American whiskey, and at Catoctin Creek, we faithfully dedicate ourselves to that tradition, producing Virginia's most awarded whisky—Roundstone Rye!
The name "Catoctin" is a regional name. Pronounced Ka-TOCK-tin, the name derives from the Indian tribal name "Kittocton" which, legend has it, meant "place of many deer". Catoctin describes a range of mountains and the eponymous creek which flows picturesquely past the distillery and into the Potomac River and Chesapeake Watershed.
At Catoctin Creek, we believe in high quality food and spirits. We source our grain and fruit from local sources, free of pesticides and chemical additives that would come through in the spirits we produce. The results are the finest, cleanest spirits possible, with the greatest attention to detail in every single bottle we produce.
