Ledaig Rioja Cask
Tobermory was founded in 1798 on the Isle of Mull. The distillery’s main output falls under the Tobermory brand and is used in some blends like Black Bottle, but they also produce a smaller mount of peated single malt sold under the name Ledaig, the original name of the distillery. The Ledaig Rioja Cask is the first in the Sinclair Series, launched in 2020. Regardless, this peated single malt is aged in ex-bourbon barrels before being finished in ex-Rioja casks.
Rampur Double Cask
Rampur distillery is located in the Uttar Pradesh region of India and is owned by Radico Khaitan. While technically distilling spirits since 1943, by the turn of the century Rampur was launching brands under it’s own name for the domestic market and, increasingly, for international ones. The Rampur Double Cask is double distilled from six-row barley and matured using both American ex-bourbon and European ex-sherry casks.
Stauning Smoke
Stauning was founded in 2005 by nine friends who wanted to make exceptinoal whisky in Denmark, specically usng local grains like rye and barley and using small copper pot stills (currently 24 of them). 100% of the grain is floor-malted at the distillery and no coloring or chill filtering is used. While the distillery has two decades of experience now, and a variety of core offerings to showcase, their global footprint has only expanded in recent years through additional funding from spirits conglomerate Diageo. Their only single malt is the Stauning Smoke, sourced from two Danish farms and lightly peated. The barley is kiln dried using local peat and heather and is meant to evoke a West Coast Danish terroir; matured in first-fill bourbon barrels, first-fill fortified wine and spirits casks, and heavy charred new American white oak barrels.