Cedar Ridge The QuintEssential American Single Malt

Batch 12: An orchard on the nose, mainly apples and plums, some nuts, with a bit of grass. The palate gives oak with a background of fruit and faint sweetness, transitioning to pepper. The pepper slowly fades, along with the fruit, for a long finish. This Distillery gets the vatting and solera casking just right. other than perhaps providing some nuttiness on the nose, I don't detect the peat (from one-half of the distillate).