Virginia Distillery Co. Courage & Conviction Double Cask Reserve
- Grain to glass
- Non-chill filtered
- Core range
- Proof
- 96
- Age
- Not stated
- Style
- MaltAmerican Single Malt Whisky
- MSRP
- $79.99~$74.99 street
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“Bourbon-cask and red-wine-cask malt, each aged five years apart before they are married.”
Tasting notes
- nose
- tart cherry, lemon sorbet and white grape, then dried honey, cinnamon-dusted raisins and almond
- palate
- pears in syrup, lemon drops and honeyed black tea over bran cereal and vanilla coffee cake
- finish
- medium-long; quince jam, vanilla and pink grapefruit peel, settling into tart fruit and malty bread
Mash bill
- Malted barley100%
100% malted barley. Virginia Distillery Co. buys barley grown and malted in the Midwest and mills it in Lovingston on a 1920s Boby mill, one of a handful in the country, which splits the grain into three parts for the grist. The mash is fermented into a wash of about 8% alcohol before it reaches the stills.
- Cask
- First-fill ex-bourbon casks and STR European red wine (cuvée) casks
Awards
- Gold — Beverage Testing Institute 2025
Why it's craft
Double Cask Reserve is built from two separate maturations of the same Virginia single malt: one in first-fill bourbon casks, one in European red wine casks that were shaved, toasted and re-charred, each held at least five years before the two are vatted together. Virginia Distillery Co. makes the spirit itself in Lovingston, double distilling malted barley on copper pot stills built in Scotland. It is bottled at 96 proof without chill filtration.
Virginia Distillery Co.
Family-owned · Est. 2011 · Tours