The acclaimed folk musician and Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan is rolling out a brand new line of bourbon, whiskey, and rye called Heaven’s Door. The name is a tribute to his famous 1973 song “Knocking on Heaven’s Door”. The bottles feature ironwork designs Dylan crafted himself. While the whiskeys are currently sourced, there are plans to open a distillery for Heaven’s Door in Nashville in 2019. This project has legs: one of the founding partners of Angel’s Envy is backing it.
Dylan’s Heaven’s Door Spirits — named after his 1973 single “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” — so far consists of three varieties of whiskey all created by different distillers in different parts of the country: a Tennessee Bourbon, described as a straight bourbon made from 30 percent “small grains”; a Double Barrel Whiskey, a blend made using a “double barrel finishing process”; and a Straight Rye Whiskey, aged in bottles that were “air-dried” in a mountainous region of Vosges, France.
Each variety will also come in bottles inspired by designs created at the Los Angeles foundry where Dylan practices his ironwork. Bottles in Australia will be available from www.mybottleshop.com.