Contents
Specifications
- Grain Bill:
- Washington Select Pale Malt (65%)
- Five Malt (14%)
- Bairds Heavily Peated Malt (21%)
- Cask Type(s):
- 1st-Fill ex-Bourbon (6 casks)
- 1st-Fill ex-Oloroso Hogshead (1 cask)
- New American Oak (Cooper’s Reserve) (1 cask)
- 1st-Fill ex-Westland (1 cask)
- Minimum Maturation Time: 34 Months
Release Info
- Release Number: 0082
- Spirit Type: American Single Malt Whiskey
- Release Name: Winter 2016
- Release Date: November 2016
- ABV: 50%
- Size: 750ml
- Total Bottled: 2463
From the Distillery
- “The release of Westland Winter celebrates the stark contrasts of the season. At once brisk and cozy, austere and comforting, it hovers over the threshold of the season’s two theaters, the hinterland and the hearth. Nine casks were married for this release. Smoke is the one constant, its waft on the wind carrying us in and out of each scene. The ex-bourbon casks shape the whiskey into a fully realized portrait of winter, but this release’s ascendant feature is a single ex-Oloroso hogshead of peated spirit. This sherry cask, with its immense richness and assertive peatiness, reminds us that this time of year togetherness is warming and indulgence is forgiven.”
- Tasting Notes
- Flavor Profile: “The nose introduces fresh apple, raisin sauce, light peat smoke and cocoa powder while the palate transforms these initial explorations and delivers fruit cake, cooked apples, gingerbread and mocha for a nuanced and satisfying dram.”
Awards
Links
- Winter 2016 (Westland)
- Westland Bartender Field Guide: Winter 2016 (bartenderfieldguide.com) —
https://www.bartenderfieldguide.com/release-archives-summary/winter-2016-3ky4l(dead as of Fall 2026)
Databases
- Distiller.com: Westland Winter 2016
- Whiskybase: Westland Winter 2016 (WB91690)
- Whiskystats: Westland Winter 2016 Winter - Limited Release
Reviews
- L.A. Whiskey Society - Westland Winter 2016
- reddit r/bourbon: Review #1: Westland Winter 2016 (Strasse007)
- reddit r/bourbon: Review #49: Westland Winter 2016 Release (theslicknick6)
- reddit r/bourbon: Review #69: Westland Winter 2016 (washeewashee)
- reddit r/bourbon: Review #103 / #302: Westland Winter 2016 (bananavanman)
- The Whiskey Wash: Whiskey Review: Westland Distillery Winter 2016
Archivist’s Notes
- “One of the earlier Westland blended releases that brings together Westland’s core mashbills (Pale Malt, Five Malt, Bairds Heavily Peated Malt) and core cask types (new American oak, Sherry casks) to create something greater than the sum of its parts. The foundation is the pale malt, with Five Malt and Peated malt as accents. Similarly, the bulk of the wood here is refill American oak, with new oak and sherry as accents. It’s somehow all of the Core Range (American Oak, Peated and Sherry Wood) and yet more than the Core Range. Winter 2016 was truly my first great love of the Westland portfolio.
For tasting, compare to Reverie Fig 1, Coldfoot, Winter 2025, and finally Flagship.”
