10th Street American Single Malt Whisky Peated Cask Strength Port Casks

This is American single malt with real attitude: peated malt, bottled at cask strength, and finished in port casks, a combination that lands somewhere between a crackling firepit and a jar of berry preserves. The nose opens with strawberry hard candy, table salt, a briny oyster note and drifting firepit smoke, while the palate layers mixed berry jam and red licorice over a savory, mussel-broth depth, dry grass, sage brown butter and raw honeycomb. The finish is viscous and creamy, with baked fruit cake, camphor, white pepper and the scent of burning leaves. It suits the drinker who already enjoys peat and wants to see what port-cask sweetness and full strength do to it, and it rewards slow, attentive sipping more than mixing. We carry it because it shows how adventurous 10th Street Distillery is willing to be with American single malt, and because the interplay of salinity, smoke and red fruit makes for a bottle that keeps changing in the glass, especially with a few drops of water.