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Recent Examples of puncheonEach bottling of Gorovka, cut to 55% ABV, only partially empties the puncheon after which the barrel is topped up with fresh spirit.—Don Tse, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025 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
Now operated by the 3rd generation of the Scott family, who still cook burn-barrel style on big cinderblock pits under the curving metal roof of the pit house.
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Robert F. Moss,
Southern Living,
17 Sep. 2025
Amphorae gave way to wooden barrels, and Venetian shipbuilding ensured wines could travel further with less spoilage.
To enter the distillery's cavernous aging rooms is to be surrounded by the same oloroso sherry casks that Don Fernández once used.
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Carley Rojas Ávila,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
Last spring, Bushmills released a 46-year-old single malt aged in a pair of sherry casks that was the oldest Irish single malt bottled to date (there have been older pot still whiskeys).
In 2022, an Ardbeg 1994 hogshead fetched £205,000 at auction.
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Mark Littler,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
The tone is efficient and business-like: details about hogsheads, crop rotations and bills of lading cover over a bloody reality merely hinted at in passing references to rebellion, illness and punishments among the enslaved workers.
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