- BrandWoodinville
- CountryUSA
- RegionWashington
- TypeBourbon
- Size750ml
- SKU 210000042571
The oldest and hands down best Woodinville Whiskey Company bourbon to date.
Started in 2010 by Orlin Sorensen and Brett Carlile, Woodinville is located in the state of Washington. The company sources all of their staple grains exclusively from the Omlin Family farm in Quincy, Washington. The grains are mashed, distilled, and barreled at their Woodinville Distillery, and then trucked back over the Cascade Mountains to the company’s private barrel houses.
This limited edition 8 year old release represents the culmination of over 10 years of work for the company, with a significant focus on the barrels used to age the whiskey. As a result of that experimentation, this whiskey was aged in heavily toasted, lightly charred Independent Stave Company barrels made from 24-month open-air seasoned staves. Tested by gas chromatography at the 4.5 year mark, according to the company, these barrels were discovered to “have significantly higher amounts of whiskey’s favorite core compounds: furfural (sweetness, almond, baked bread), vanillin (vanilla, creaminess), and phenols, namely guaiacol (smoky, spicy) and 4-methyl guaiacol (sweet, candy, clove, leather).” At the point of testing, Sorenson and Carlile found the whiskey to still have slight graininess, and ultimately continued to age for an additional 4 years before bottling.
The whiskey is an explosion of flavors that find impeccable balance. An assortment of fruit flavors, traditionally-driven sweeter barrel flavors of caramel and vanilla, higher age-driven flavors of aged oak and leather start the sip. It furthers dials in sweet flavors of maple syrup, brown sugar, and even a cream soda note on the finish. Contrasted against ample but not overpowering spice, makes for a rich, complex, and immediately memorable pour.