This bottling of a 10-year-old WhistlePig rye whisky comes from a stock taken over from a rye whisky warehouse in Canada. The whisky matured further in new American white oak casks and was finished in ex-bourbon casks.
WhistlePig is a distillery in Shoreham, Vermont, USA, which was founded in 2008 by Dave Pickerell on a former rye farm. Besides rye whiskey, WhistlePig also produces blended whiskeys from rye, wheat and barley. They also use finishes in Madeira, Port or Sauternes barrels, for example, as well as self-produced Vermont oak barrels. Pickerell passed away in 2018, since then the distillery has been run by Emily Harrison and Meghan Ireland.
Whiskey production in the United States is dominated by about a dozen large distilleries, so that almost all whiskey sold comes from a single distillery, and blended whiskey is almost non-existent as a mixture of the whiskey of several distilleries.
The terms single barrel for whiskey from a single cask and small batch for whiskey from a relatively small number of casks have become established as distinguishing features.
This bottling of a 10-year-old WhistlePig rye whisky comes from a stock taken over from a rye whisky warehouse in Canada. The whisky matured further in new American white oak casks and was finished in ex-bourbon casks.
WhistlePig is a distillery in Shoreham, Vermont, USA, which was founded in 2008 by Dave Pickerell on a former rye farm. Besides rye whiskey, WhistlePig also produces blended whiskeys from rye, wheat and barley. They also use finishes in Madeira, Port or Sauternes barrels, for example, as well as self-produced Vermont oak barrels. Pickerell passed away in 2018, since then the distillery has been run by Emily Harrison and Meghan Ireland.
Whiskey production in the United States is dominated by about a dozen large distilleries, so that almost all whiskey sold comes from a single distillery, and blended whiskey is almost non-existent as a mixture of the whiskey of several distilleries.
The terms single barrel for whiskey from a single cask and small batch for whiskey from a relatively small number of casks have become established as distinguishing features.
