Virginia Distillery Co. Blue Ridge Toasted Barrel Finish
- Grain to glass
- Core range
- Proof
- 93
- Age
- Not stated
- Style
- MaltAmerican Single Malt Whisky
- MSRP
- $44.99~$39.99 street
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“Single malt finished in new toasted barrels of Blue Ridge Mountain oak.”
Tasting notes
- nose
- cinnamon cereal and caramel with brioche, strawberry, vanilla custard and white chocolate
- palate
- hot cinnamon over apricot, citrus and honeyed walnut, with toasted coconut, spiced hot chocolate and espresso
- finish
- long; chocolate, coffee and cinnamon, then crème brûlée and plum pudding, fading to campfire smoke
Mash bill
- Malted barley100%
100% malted barley. The barley is grown and malted in the Midwest and milled in Lovingston, then mashed with spring water from the Blue Ridge Mountains. In this bottling the local element is the wood: the finishing barrels are coopered from Blue Ridge oak.
- Cask
- First-fill ex-bourbon barrels from Kentucky distilleries
- Finish
- Virgin toasted oak barrels from the Blue Ridge Mountains
Awards
- Gold — Beverage Testing Institute 2025
Why it's craft
Blue Ridge is the only one of Virginia Distillery Co.'s core finishes that uses fresh wood rather than a cask that held another drink: after years in first-fill bourbon barrels, the malt goes into new, toasted barrels made from oak grown in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The distillery makes the spirit itself in Lovingston, double distilling malted barley on copper pot stills built in Scotland. Its cask houses hold up to 5,000 casks each.
Virginia Distillery Co.
Family-owned · Est. 2011 · Tours