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Introducing Batch 029: Centenary Cask!
In the Spring of 2015, our Experimental Distillery became Chattanooga’s first distillery in 100 years. Centenary Cask honors this history with a blend of Experimental pot-distilled mash bills – all married & finished within a rare, 100-year-old Oloroso Sherry puncheon.
Mash Bill: Various
Age: Greater than 4 years
Proof: 100 (50% Alc/Vol)
Cooperage: Toasted & Charred Oak, 53 & 25 gallon
Finishing Cooperage: Centenary Oloroso Sherry Puncheon (c. 1915)
Fill No. 2
Barrel Blend: 001, 168, 180, 187
Finishing Time: 12 mos
Batch Size: 100 proof gallons
Style: Straight Bourbon Whiskey finished in an Oloroso Sherry Cask
Tasting notes: Aged-wine aromas of soaked fruit cake, toasted walnut and bread pudding
HAVE WE SEEN THIS BARREL BEFORE?
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Yes! You may have noticed this was the second fill for our centenary barrel. Our Experimental Batch 021: Vatted High Malt was finished in this barrel for 3 months in late 2021 before it was emptied and then filled with Batch XXIX for a 12 month finish.
The best part? It’s already been refilled! Our Centenary Cask will now be a yearly release each January, bottled and refilled in the solera style. Every 100-gallon batch will be uniquely different from the last, and contain traces of whiskeys from previous fills, including Barrel 001: the first barrel ever filled at our Experimental Distillery.
With quite a future ahead for this barrel, we can’t forget that its story starts long before it’s current chapter at Chattanooga Whiskey. Cheers to another 100 years!
1915 – 1955
Filled with: D.O.P. Montilla-Moriles (Solera method)
Location: Dona Mencia, Cordoba, ESP
1955 – 2021
Filled with: D.O.P. Jerez-Xeres-Sherry – Oloroso D.O.P. Montilla-Moriles (Solera method)
Location: Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz, ESP Montilla, Cordoba, ESP
2021 – Present
Filled with: Straight Bourbon Whiskey (Vatted & Solera methods)
Location: DSP-TN-21030 Chattanooga, TN 37402
Vocabulary Words:
Centenary: Relating to a hundredth anniversary; centennial
Oloroso Sherry: A rich, oxidized style of wine that is made in southern Spain
XXIX: 29 in Roman numerals, a nod to the history of our centenary barrel