Interesting article on where the sherry barrels used for ageing whisky really come from: "Some 84,100 sherry casks were exported last year, Luyten says, while he calculates the volume of all sherry wine sold last year as only adding up to about 63,600 casks."
None of the Liquid, All of the Flavor: The Actual Business Behind Sherry Barrel-Aging
Sherry-cask whiskies are wildly popular. But if people aren’t really drinking sherry, where do sherry casks come from?
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