Tain, Ross-shire, Scotland — BEHOLD the eternal Scottish Highlands -- green woods, gray skies, a touch of mist. Glenmorangie Distillery is way out here, 40 miles north of Inverness, overlooking ...

Scotch barrels/casks: The vast majority of whisky in Scotland is aged not in newly charred oak barrels, but oak barrels previously used to mature American bourbon or other spirits such as sherry, ...

On Saturday evening, I did what people do on Twitter and announced my imminent first taste of a curious creation from Goose Island.The beer was an imperial stout aged in Scotch whiskey barrels ...

When it comes to wine and whiskey – especially bourbon – the oak barrel reigns, not just as a container, but also for the magic that the wood gives to the whiskey.

There aren't a lot of these whiskey-barrel aged wines out there. I could only find four, two aged bourbon barrels, one in an Irish whiskey barrel and one in a Scotch barrel.

Only when it emerges, no sooner than three years later, is it legally Scotch. We now know that a barrel's wood is responsible for all of a whisky's brown color and about 70 percent of its flavor.

Traditionally, new barrels are used to age bourbon; once they are finished, the bourbon-soaked barrels often go to scotch whisky distillers, who let their product sit for longer to tease out the ...

This pick is very on the nose, and most lists of “best scotches for bourbon drinkers” will probably have it on there, but for a very good reason—this is a scotch that is literally calculated ...

The wine was aged in traditional wine oak barrels and then further aged in scotch barrels. $20. Jacob’s Creek Double Barrel Cabernet Sauvignon. Plum, leather, black cherry, ...

10. The Singleton Single Malt Scotch Whisky 12 Years Old Diageo. ABV: 40% Average Price: $45 The Whisky: This single malt from Diageo is a great gateway to good single malt. The juice is aged for ...