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Westland’s Colere Edition American Single Malt Officially Hit the Shelves
Westland’s Colere Edition American Single Malt Officially Hit the Shelves
Westland Distillery’s Outpost Range has begun releasing the second of three annual limited editions in the Outpost Range: Colere Edition 1 American Single Malt Whiskey. The Outpost Range was first introduced in August 2020 to reflect the Seattle distiller’s core mission to push beyond the old-world conventions to pursue new possibilities in a single malt.
The Colere Edition 1 American Single Malt Whiskey, which we reviewed a few months back, is a single malt that demonstrates how regional barley adds flavor. Edition 1 is made from a new variety of barley called Alba, which is grown outside the commodity system in Washington State’s Skagit Valley.
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The pandemic turbocharged many trends that were already under way when the coronavirus struck the US early last year. One of them was consumer demand for food labelled “organic”, as shuttered restaurants and lockdowns forced many to see the contents of their refrigerator in a new light.
Indeed, 2020 sales of organic produce grew by 14.2 per cent. In the first quarter of this year, organic food sales rose by 9.3 per cent over the same period last year, topping $US2.2 billion ($2.8 billion) as shoppers sought to avoid the taint of artificial additives, fertilisers and pesticides.
“Some of the surge we’ve seen in organic sales in the pandemic has been because of the perception of safety,” said Melanie Bartelme, global food analyst at Mintel, a market research firm.
Whiskey Review: Westland Colere Edition 1
Whiskey Review: Westland Colere Edition 1
Editor’s Note: This whiskey was provided to us as a review sample by Westland. This in no way, per our editorial policies, influenced the final outcome of this review.
Terroir traditionally has been incidental in whiskey, rather than a fundamental force. To then seek out that factor and form the product around it waxes poetic. Which is what Westland is doing with their Outpost Range. These whiskeys are “an exploration of Pacific Northwest provenance” and feature various agricultural elements of this region.
The Colere series explores the base element of single malts: barley. Barley has also often been considered an incidental in whiskey, but Westland sees more to it than that. In true whiskey nerd fashion, I wanted to know more about this new project. Westland Master Distiller Matt Hofmann had plenty to say about this exciting line and the massive effort that went into it.
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