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San Jose, California’s 10th Street Single Malt is again with one other peated expression — this one completed in French oak pinot noir casks from a northern California vineyard. (Preliminary ageing is in first-fill ex-bourbon casks, not new oak.)
Every year tenth Road releases a unique wine cask launch. That is our first encounter with these choices. No age assertion is supplied. Let’s dive in.
This expression affords a well-recognized strategy, with a reasonably peaty nostril that mingles with light fruit notes, although they’re stored considerably at arm’s size — apples and a few citrus, with an fringe of lime leaf in lieu of the pink berry fruit parts one may in any other case anticipate. Nothing wild right here, and the palate retains the theme largely in line: Reasonably smoky from entrance to again, with an undercurrent that runs closely to baked apples, lemon peel, and only a trace of cherry. It’s by no means clearly — and even modestly — evocative of the pink wine barrel, which is a bit unlucky, and it doesn’t come throughout in any respect the way in which whiskies like Kilchoman’s pink wine matured whisky current themselves. That stated, whereas I’d like to see much more pink fruit within the combine right here, it’s nonetheless a enjoyable and really approachable expression of peated American single malt, one thing one virtually by no means will get an opportunity to see lately.
100 proof.
B+ / $80 / 10thstreetdistillery.com
tenth Road Single Malt Peated Wine Cask Completed
$80
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