Woodinville Whiskey, located just outside of Seattle, is currently making some of the best craft bourbon and rye in the ...

For this new release, however, the whiskey was finished in just one type of cask for 32 months-60-gallon French oak barrels that previously held Cabernet Sauvignon wine from Shafer Vineyards in ...

What's in a wine barrel? Columnist Gus Clemens explores how wood, other factors impact quality, taste and more.

And over generations it became tradition; now you can buy a brand new wine barrel but we still sell whiskey barrels because you have a guy whose grandfather came [to the U.S.] in the ’30s and ...

This is not exactly a new type of cask finish ... Chalk it up to the quality of the whiskey and the wine barrels from Shafer, as well as a good sense of when to dump them so as not to let the ...

Oak and wine were made for each other. The wood and how it is treated introduces flavors compounds and textures. Oak barrels allow slow oxygenation, which engenders complexity and depth.

For this new release, however, the whiskey was finished in just one type of cask for 32 months—60-gallon French oak barrels that previously held Cabernet Sauvignon wine from Shafer Vineyards in ...