Westland

Tasting notes: On the nose, there’s redwood bark with termites lounging in the crevices, smoking tiny cigarettes (it’d be weird if they were smoking regular-sized ones), [...]

[I filled this one myself this past May at Westland Distillery in Seattle. In fact, I bought two of them! This one was matured for 48 months in American oak casks and then [...]

[Please note: Last year, Westland produced only 2,000 bottles of their Peat Week whiskey, and they were available only in Washington state. This year, Westland offers three [...]

Tasting notes: Wow.  This nose is sultry and tangy like Katherine Hepburn and Audrey Hepburn’s love child.  There’s a pretty waxy note, like that on a letter sealed [...]

Tasting notes: The Westeros Winter Is Coming…soon…to a store near you. If you found yourself standing on a giant icewall and you’ve spent the night watching hordes of [...]

[Please note: Westland produced only 2,000 bottles of this 50% abv whiskey, and they will only be available in Washington state this year. But next year, we hear that this [...]

Tasting notes: The nose on this whiskey is vibrant and wonderfully wild: it’s a smoldering crib that firefighters carry out of a burning home, only to find that the [...]

Tasting notes: Lemon scented dish soap, from the vantage point of the children not helping to clean the kitchen.  Smoke from a cooled pipe that held a very mild tobacco.  [...]

Tasting notes: The Westland Sherry Wood American Single Malt Whiskey opens with the first fully retractable grass notes of an American whiskey, much like the Glendale Arizona [...]