Westland 7 Year Old Exclusive Single Cask - Cask 6205

A Master of Malt and Pour & Sip exclusive from Seattle craft distillers leading the way for American single malt. It’s made using Westland’s signature five malt barley bill: Washington Select Pale Malt, Munich Malt, Extra Special Malt, Pale Chocolate Malt, Brown Malt. These are exciting full-flavoured choices, including rich, roasted malts rarely seen in whiskies (but common in dark beers, including porters and stouts).

On this occasion it also followed a production run of heavily peated spirit, with the residual character lending a background note. Cask 6205 is one of eight Jurançon French white wine casks filled in 2018, and one of just two filled with spirit previously aged in a Cooper’s Select (new American oak with a light toast and heavy char) barrel.

Westland is also a Certified B Corporation, meaning that they’ve met extremely high social and environmental standards. The tiny number of other distilleries to also achieve this includes Nc’nean and Bruichladdich.