Westland American Single Malt 7 Years Old
Pure Washington Terroir
We hand-selected this cask from Westland Distillery in Seattle, Washington. A transformative voice in American single malt, Westland is on the forefront of creating whiskey that truly reflects where it’s made. In Westland’s case, that’s the Pacific Northwest, which has a unique climate offering growing conditions for grain and maturation conditions for whiskey unlike anywhere else in the world.
This release, our first single cask from Westland, was distilled from their signature five-malt recipe, a combination of malts with several different roast levels. It was aged for seven years in a new oak cask, long enough to bring substantial oak influence but short enough that the underlying flavors of the grain still shine through brilliantly. It is fresh, creamy, warm, and malty, with balanced notes of grain and oak and flavors of rich vanilla and caramel creams. Like fresh-baked bread in a glass.
2023 Single Cask #1: Westland Distillery American Single Malt 7 Years Old
Proof: 105.7
Age: 7 years
Quantity produced: 215 bottles
Format: 750mL
Details: Cask strength; Non-chill filtered; no color added
Cask Details
- Mashbill — 70% Great Western “Pure WA” Pale Malt/13% Briess Extra Special Malt / 9% GW Munich Malt/4% Thomas Fawcett & Sons Brown Malt/4% TF&S Pale Chocolate Malt
- Maturation Barrel Info — New American Oak: ISC Cooper’s Select – Light Toast / Heavy Char
- Barrel Entry Proof: 110
- Barrel Size — 200 liters
- Finishing Barrel Info — N/A
- Length of Secondary Maturation/Finishing — N/A
ALSO FROM THIS DISTILLER:
- Type: Single Cask
- Pour: Neat, on the rocks, or in a cocktail
- Glass: glencairn or snifter
About Westland Distillery
A transformative voice in American single malt, Westland is on the forefront of creating whiskey that truly reflects where it’s made. In Westland’s case, that’s the Pacific Northwest, which has a unique climate offering growing conditions for grain and maturation conditions for whiskey unlike anywhere else in the world. Westland has embraced this, even going so far as funding a PhD student in partnership with The Bread Lab to help develop new strains of barley specifically adapted for the Pacific Northwest and for single malt production. The distillery has also embraced the use of local oak through its famed Garryana release and even uses Washington peat for smoking some of its barley. Westland is also the leading champion pushing for the formal establishment of American single malt as a federally recognized style of whiskey.
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