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Wood Hat Aged Blue Corn Whiskey

Wood Hat Spirits was founded in 2012 by Gary Hinegardner, a local agronomist and businessman, located right by the side of the highway in New Florence, Missouri. Gary is also a wood turner and creates, among other things, the wooden hats after which the distillery is named. More pertinent to this website, Gary also creates whiskies and cordials. The Wood Hat Aged Blue Corn Whiskey uses Hopi blue corn and is aged in toasted chinquapin oak barrels, a specials of white oak native to eastern and central North America.

By Adam | November 20, 2023 | Foreign | No Comments |

This whiskey has a story particular to Scotchology. This had been slotted for World Whisky Day 2020 but a last minute mixup in shipping meant that we had to substitute the Batch 3 instead, to the complaint of absolutely no one. But Batch 2 deserves its due. Wanderback exists somewhere between an independent bottler and a distillery, in that they procure the barrels of single malt from different distilleries – Batches 1-4 from Westland Distillery and Batches 5-6 from Balcones Distilling – and then choose how they age or finish them. The Wanderback Batch 2 is aged a minimum of 3 years and finished in a mix of ex-bourbon and ex-rum casks.

By Adam | October 20, 2023 | Foreign | No Comments |

Taconic Dutchess Private Reserve Cognac Cask

Taconic distillery was founded in 2013 by Paul Coughlin and Gerald Valenti as Millbrook Distillery until the change to the present name in 2015, located in the Hudson Valley of New York. A farm to bottle operation, the grains and water are all sourced locally and the distillery has a whiskey-central focus. They are also active in the American Distilling Institute, the American Craft Spirits Association and the New York Distillers Guild. The regular Dutchess Private Reserve is a straight bourbon named after the county in New York the distillery is located in and approximately four years old. This particular edition was aged in new oak barrels for 3.5 years before being finished in ex-cognac casks from Remy Martin for a further six months.

By Adam | September 20, 2023 | Foreign | No Comments |