RiverMarket in Tarrytown to Hold Dinner With Courses Paired to Rare Kentucky Whiskey

A six-course, whiskey-paired dinner will be held at RiverMarket Bar & Kitchen on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016 in a collaboration between the restaurant and Pour Cafe & Winebar, a boutique bar and eatery in Mount Kisco that specializes in craft whiskeys and spirits.

The prix-fixe cost of $450 per person includes gratuity and tax. Six different whiskeys from the Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky will be offered during dinner.

The Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery’s bourbon, often called Pappy Van Winkle or simply Pappy, is a cultural phenomenon. Bourbon connoisseurs have long held it up as one of the world’s best, while limited production has ensured that it also is one of the world’s most sought after bourbons.

The whiskeys to be served at the dinner include the distillery’s most famous product — a 20-year, 90.4-proof bourbon Family Reserve and a very rare 23-year-old 95.6-proof bourbon Family Reserve.

The other whiskeys are:

• A 10-year-old,107-proof bourbon cited for its smoothness
• A sweet 12-year old, 90.4-proof bourbon recommended as an after-dinner drink
• A 13-year-old, 95.6-proof rye whiskey
• A younger version of the famous 20-year-old bourbon.

According to an article in Garden & Gun, a sporting life and Southern food magazine, “a growing body of aficionados believe Rip Van Winkle’s aged bourbons to be the finest whiskeys on Earth.”

Julian P. Van Winkle III, president of the Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery, won the James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Wine and Spirits Professional in 2011. His grandfather, known as “Pappy,“ started the business in the 1870s.

The restaurant is on the west side of the Tarrytown Metro North train station and is reached by driving across a bridge slightly north of the station.

RiverMarket Bar & Kitchen is located at 127 West Main Street, Tarrytown, NY 10591, 914-632-3100.