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Recent Examples of cask
Book a tour of the distillery, set within a series of historic buildings surrounded by swaths of green farmland, and sample the award-winning expressions straight from the cask.
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Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 28 May 2025
This Extra Añejo Tequila is aged for a minimum of five years in dark European oak and finished in Oloroso sherry casks.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
It’s started in sherry, moved on to bourbon and finished for about a year in port wine casks.
—Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 May 2025
Despite all that peat, there is quite a bit of nuance to the whisky, each of which is bottled relatively young for a scotch (often around five years old) and is aged in different types of casks including one expression made from a specific barley varietal.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 13 May 2025
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Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 28 May 2025
This Extra Añejo Tequila is aged for a minimum of five years in dark European oak and finished in Oloroso sherry casks.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
It’s started in sherry, moved on to bourbon and finished for about a year in port wine casks.
—Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 May 2025
Despite all that peat, there is quite a bit of nuance to the whisky, each of which is bottled relatively young for a scotch (often around five years old) and is aged in different types of casks including one expression made from a specific barley varietal.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 13 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cask
Noun
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Despite efforts to pivot to other sources of energy to fight climate change, the global economy runs on oil — more than 100 million barrels per day, and increasing.—
Camila Domonoske,
NPR,
25 June 2025
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Brent Crude was $68 per barrel this morning, remaining below its peak from a few days ago when the U.S. bombed Iran.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
25 June 2025
Noun
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The airport's attempt to replace milk bottles with milk kegs failed because of timing and fluctuations in milk use.—
Christopher Elliott,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2025
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Small brewers are being hit especially hard by tariffs on equipment, kegs, aluminum cans and ingredients, such as hops and grain.—
Megan Stringer,
Axios,
6 May 2025
Noun
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According to the distillery, the whisky was initially matured in a combination of European oak butts and American oak hogsheads, and then finished for more than four years in Oloroso and Palo Cortado sherry casks that were sourced from Andalusia, where the Spanish city of Jerez is located.—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
22 June 2025
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Oban 15 Cask Strength Sherry Cask Finish is a new, limited-edition Highland single malt that spends the majority of its life across a combination of European oak butts and American oak hogsheads.—
David Thomas Tao,
Forbes.com,
16 June 2025
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“Cask.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cask. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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