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Recent Examples of puncheonAged for 10 months in 31% new French oak puncheons and cigar barrels and 69% neutral French oak puncheons.—Yuri Shima, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026 The Arizona La Osa is a 2019 Grenache aged 18 months in neutral 500-liter puncheons and bottled unfiltered.—Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 17 Nov. 2024 After being distilled in pot stills at Hioki, the whisky is aged in new American oak puncheons and ex-bourbon barrels for a minimum of three years.—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2024 Decades of experience led us to fill the spirit into a first-fill Sherry puncheon for long-term maturation.—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 24 July 2022
According to the distillery, Master Blender Adam Hannett designed the maturation profile as a nod to the original release, using 75% first-fill bourbon barrels alongside 25% first- and second-fill French red wine casks.
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Emily Price,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
This very expensive rum combines the last liquid from casks sourced from 13 distilleries across countries in different parts of the world, including Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Guyana, and Brazil.
The whisky was initially aged in Oloroso sherry butts from Spain, and after four decades it was transferred into three Spanish oak Pedro Ximénez hogsheads which were ultimately married together.
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Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
15 Apr. 2026
In 2022, an Ardbeg 1994 hogshead fetched £205,000 at auction.