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After more than a decade of work by distillers and advocates, American single malt became the first new (official) American whiskey category in over 52 years back in January 2025. Virginia Distillery Co. was a founding member of the American Single Malt Whiskey Commission, and this particular release – initially aged in first-fill bourbon barrels, then finished in new toasted oak barrels from the Blue Ridge Mountains – was named Best American Single Malt at the World Whiskies Awards 2026.

Perhaps more than other single malt producers in the USA, Virginia Distillery Co. was established with a commitment to traditional Scottish whisky-making techniques, but still necessarily adapted for the American climate where heat, humidity, and levels of evaporation are all extremely different. Oh, and unlike most American distilleries, they spell “whisky” without the ‘e’!

Pour & Sip

Hugely exciting this. A Master of Malt (and by extension Pour & Sip - although you're getting this barrel a month earlier than anyone else!) exclusive ‘Sazerac Barrel Select’ bottling of W.L. Weller Full Proof wheated bourbon! In other words, this is an extra special single cask edition of what was already one of the hard-to-find absolute highlights of the Buffalo Trace Distillery oeuvre.

Wheated bourbons such as this swap some or usually all of the rye out in favour of wheat. Other famous examples include Maker’s Mark and Pappy Van Winkle. This leads to a generally smoother style of bourbon that many favour, although there’s still plenty of power to be found here. W.L. Weller in fact uses the exact same mashbill as the legendary (also Buffalo Trace Distillery) Pappy Van Winkle, and it should also be noted that unlike almost all the distillery’s releases (outside of their rare and highly sought-after Antique Collection), this is also non-chill filtered.