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The Best Cask Finished Bourbon According To The World Whiskies Awards 2024

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This gives the whiskey ample time to interact with the wood and take on the characteristics of the liquid that was previously matured in the cask, unlocking new flavors and profiles. The whiskey is comprised of a blend of straight bourbon whiskeys from Kentucky and Indiana, aged for 13 and 10 years respectively.

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How Foursquare Rum Casks Became the Ultimate Whiskey Finishing Vessel

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Cask finishing is hardly new in the whiskey business. And yet, it’s nearly impossible to think of a rum brand that’s literally called out by name when used as a whiskey finishing barrel. Sachs, who didn’t want to simply source whiskey, but instead create a brand centered on provenance and transparency.

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The Best English Whisky According To The World Whiskies Awards 2024

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This English single malt whiskey is distilled from 100% malted barley and aged in a first-fill bourbon cask. It then undergoes a finishing period in an Imperial Stout-seasoned barrel. This makes the whiskey “the first ever to be distilled within the ancient city walls of Canterbury,” according to the brand website.

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8 Things You Should Know About Willett Distillery

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We all know Pappy and the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection can fetch a fortune at the auction block, but there’s another purveyor of grailed whiskeys worth studying: Willett Distillery. It would be another 60 or so years, however, before the family would get into the whiskey business. Located in Bardstown, Ky. — Distillery.

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GSN Alert: New Spirits Releases 11.03.23

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THE CABINET BARREL PROOF AMERICAN WHISKEY (2023 RELEASE) The Cabinet is a blend of straight rye and bourbon whiskeys from Proof & Wood Ventures. Each whiskey in the blend was distilled in Indiana and then aged, blended, and bottled in Kentucky. Also included are two straight bourbon whiskeys distilled in 2016 and 2017.

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The 50 Best Spirits of 2023

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Method and Madness Rye and Malt Method and Madness is the experimental project from the parent company of Jameson and Redbreast Irish whiskeys , Irish Distillers-Pernod Ricard. This blend of 60 percent rye and 40 percent malted barley isn’t just an outlier in the Irish spirits realm but all of whiskey.

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