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It’s not that the worlds of American and haven’t met before, it’s just that it hasn’t always been a successful consummation, particularly when the element of smoke is involved. That being said, the latest example of this tenuous relationship works—the new limited-edition Peated Cask Rye from is a good and interesting whiskey, and provides further proof that this distillery is still one of the best in the cask-finishing business.

Virtually all of whiskeys are cask-finished, aside from the bottled-in-bond bourbon that came out last year. But not all of them are resounding successes—personally, I thought

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