About This Site

About the WLD Archives project.

This site exists to catalog the whiskey bottles released by Westland Distillery in Seattle, Washington, a producer of American Single Malt Whiskey.

Since it was founded, Westland has practiced exceptional transparency about their whiskey production - similar to a small number of other whiskey producers such as Bruichladdich123 and Copperworks4, and such independent botters as Compass Box. In terms of transparency, the release details of Copperworks are the gold standard.

Up until December 2020, Westland maintained “Release Archives” on their website documenting their released whiskies. Though incomplete, the list was a useful historical record. The last documented release in the Release Archives was #0142, the Holy Mountain Cask Exchange (December 2020). The Release Archives were removed from the Westland website sometime in late 2023 or early 2024. The Release Archives would reappear later in 2024 as part of bartenderfieldguide.com, and then would be deleted again in 2026.

Also, Westland has produced more and more single cask releases for retail. Such releases are rarely described on the Westland website.

Thus, the creation of this site to preserve what was documented and fill in the gaps. Where possible I have recovered data from the Release Archives as captured in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Primary sources are used as much as possible with citations. This site does not use data from Whiskybase but can be used as a source to populate Whiskybase (their schema is not rich enough to contain the full info).

  • No proprietary information is included on this site, and all content is sourced from publicly available information, including the Westland website, press releases, social media posts, third-party reviews, and public conversations with Westland employees.
  • Any copyrighted material displayed in these pages is used without permission for archival and informational purposes only and is not intended to infringe upon the ownership rights of the original owners.
  • I claim copyright on anything marked as an Archivist’s Note, but nothing else.
  • Most bottle photos were created specifically for this website. Images sourced from other places are propely attributed.
  • When Westland’s information is incomplete or contradictory it will be noted.
  • All errors are my own.
  • An export of the raw data used to generate this site is available upon request for research purposes.

If you are a Westland or Rémy employee, welcome! Hopefully you will learn something that you didn’t know. And if you can fill in any gaps, please reach out!

If you have any questions or concerns, corrections or updates to the data, please submit them to the site administrator (wldarchivist at gmail dot com).

Thank you section TBD.

  1. Bruichladdich: Why Transparency? ↩

  2. Bruichladdich: A Conspiracy of Silence? ↩

  3. Bruichladdich: Why Redact? ↩

  4. Copperworks: Whiskey Archives ↩