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Recent Examples of puncheonIt was matured in a first-fill Sherry puncheon, No. 1823.—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 26 May 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 Ribera del Duero further stipulates that anything from crianza on up must be aged in oak barriques smaller than 330 liters, so winemakers choosing to use larger barrels, such as 500-liter puncheons or 2,500-liter foudres, are barred from using a descriptor other than cosecha.—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 5 Aug. 2023 Awamori is not, generally speaking, aged in oak casks, which presumably makes the American oak puncheons used to finish this Glenfiddich expression even more rare.—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2023 Its counterpart, the 2018 Brughelli Chardonnay is a ringer for a great white Burgundy, perfumed with lovely florals with bare hints of vanilla and spice (there’s 50 percent new oak here, but in the form of a large puncheon) and elegant oyster-shell minerality.—Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report, 3 May 2021 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
But the 10 Year is aged in different casks—Seguin Moreau Icône barrels from California’s Napa Valley that were stored in one of the warmest areas of the distillery’s rickhouses for the majority of their maturation.
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Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
17 Aug. 2025
The Sherry Cask expression is matured for a minimum of four years in Pedro Ximenez Sherry casks.
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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