Detailed Description
The distillery has a commendable commitment to sustainability: All the electricity they use in their building is provided by solar. They actually have more than they can use, so they provide credits to their employees. Also, all their waste grains are given to local farms for feed, and the water they use is constantly captured, tested, and pH checked to ensure they’re not polluting the waste stream. The mash bill for this whiskey is a bit of a jumble, with no primary grain: 45 percent barley, 30 percent corn and 25 percent rye. It is double-distilled, then aged in a mix of aged in ex-bourbon, new American oak, and port wine barrels and latter bottled at 98 proof.
Ridgeline Barrel Aged Vermont Whiskey Tasting Notes
Nose: Cedar, mint, dried fruit, with notes of vanilla.
Palate: Opens with crisp autumn fruit notes that gain spice and warmth on the palate, developing flavors of dried fruit, vanilla, and leather and tobacco notes like a fine old red wine.
Finish: The finish is warm, with sweet spice and nutty notes followed by a clean burn.
Distillery Information
What started as a passion for making things by hand, including guitars, furniture, and beer, has become a passion for making great sprits. The founders, Lars Hubbard and Chuck Burkins, formed their friendship over 20 years ago over pints of home-brewed beer. Their distillery, established in 2010, is an expression of their own — and their team’s — beliefs in hard work, absolute honesty, social and environmental responsibility, and the magic of really, really tasty spirits.
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