Westland American Single Malt Red Wine Finish
Some Wine With Your Whiskey
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, our second cask from Westland, shows a different side of the distillery. Like the first, this is made from Westland’s signature five-malt recipe. It was aged for five years in new oak, then finished for 3 years in a Washington Cabernet Sauvignon wine cask. The finish amplifies the fruity, spicy flavors of the whiskey. Soft and rounded with a lot of spice, it has flavors of black raspberry, soft oak, apple cider donuts, and black cherry ice cream.
2023 Single Cask #2: Westland Distillery American Single Malt Finished in a Red Wine Cask 8 Years Old
Proof: 107.68
Age: 8 years
Quantity produced: 185 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 — 1st Fill Red Wine: Washington Cabernet Sauvignon – 225 liters
- Length of Secondary Maturation/Finishing — 3 years
ALSO FROM THIS DISTILLER:
- Type: Single Cask
- Pour: Neat or on the rocks
- 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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