Jefferson's Ocean Aged At Sea Double Barrel Rye Whiskey

Jefferson's OCEAN RYE is a rye whiskey matured first in #3 char barrels, then in a split between char #3 and toasted barrels in a double barrel.At sea, Jefferson's OCEAN RYE was hyper-aged. As OV26 departed the Port of Savannah for Manzanillo and the Panama Canal, it was hurricane season. The weather was clear to and through the canal, and the seas were calm. Due to a little weakening of La Nina in the tropical Pacific and warmer-than-normal surface temperatures in parts of the tropical Atlantic, OV26 got off to a slow start. Above the equator, it was summer, while below the equator, it was winter. Surface temperatures in the South Pacific Basin decreased considerably en way to New Zealand. The water at the surface was cooling because subsurface temperatures were below average. As OCEAN Rye Voyage 26 went through to Auckland and then on to Brisbane, relatively mild easterly winds were overpowered by upper-level westerlies, resulting in wind shear that drastically churned the frigid sea