A whiskey style comes of age: American Single Malt is all grown up, as the category settles its official definition. whiskey singlemalt bourbon
Within a few weeks, the Tax and Trade Bureau , which oversees the labeling and sale of alcoholic spirits in the U.S., is expected to officially announce the formal definition and category for a style of whiskey that had simply existed in the market as a collective idea for the last few decades: American single malt.
So with that said, let’s dive into the important details of the definition, and then examine how several major producers of American single malt whiskey differ in how they choose to produce it.First of all, we should define what differentiates these whiskeys from the other malt whiskeys we most often encounter in the U.S., which for almost all of us would be scotch whisky from Scotland.
Finally, there is no minimum age statement required for a distillery to be able to label its product as American single malt whiskey, which theoretically befits a younger segment of the market where there are many youthful whiskeys. On the negative side, you could perhaps say that the consumer has relatively little assurance that the whiskey they’re buying has been aged for a significant amount of time, which leaves the responsibility up to each distillery to explain their own process.
Moore’s distillery, often abbreviated as VDC, was built from the start to be one of the country’s biggest American single malt producers, though they stand out conceptually for how rooted the company’s style is in the Scottish tradition. Largely eschewing newly charred oak outside of some small-scale experimentation, Virginia Distillery Co.
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