Wisconsin’s Tattersall Distilling continues to push into the whiskey world, with the launch of its first American single malt. Impressed by (and named after) the primary interstate park within the nation — crossing between Minnesota and Wisconsin — it’s a 4 yr outdated whiskey that ages in virgin oak barrels.
Let’s crack it open.
American single malt has been evolving stylistically over the previous couple of years, however Interstate stays a transparent instance of the way it all acquired began. The nostril is burly with aggressive, uncooked wooden notes, a straight shot to the lumberyard with delicate diversions working to roasted mushroom and a few aromatic evergreen notes. More and more malty over time, the cereal core takes maintain slowly, giving the whiskey a dusky, bready high quality.
On the palate, few surprises arrive. This presents itself as a youthful, albeit approachable, American malt, once more heavy with wooden and toasted cereal notes, this time in comparatively equal proportion. Mossy and earthy because it develops, the whiskey has a uncooked and generally doughy high quality, displaying some warmth earlier than a extra simple, grassy character emerges. Toasted notes, wooden and grain alike, hold issues rumbling and smoldering right into a prolonged end that provides a mixture of tobacco and floor pepper.
If all that sounds slightly savory, it undoubtedly is: There’s not a like of fruit or honeyed sweetness right here, and the whiskey actually may use it. What you get as a substitute is a deep dive into the ability of American barley slumbering away in a contemporary oak barrel for years, and whereas the yin-yang of those two substances is highly effective, it’s sadly two-dimensional.
90 proof.
B / $45 / tattersalldistilling.com
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