
Red Wine Cask-Finished Bourbon
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Whiskey
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American Kentucky straight bourbon (51%+ corn, aged in new charred American oak per TTB) finished for several months to over a year in ex-red-wine barrels (typically Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel, or other California reds). Layers the bourbon's base caramel-vanilla-oak profile with red-fruit (cherry, blackberry, plum), cocoa, and tannic dark-chocolate-orange notes from the wine cask. Distinct from port-cask or sherry-cask finishes (no fortified-wine raisin/oxidative depth) and from straight bour...
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