Cedar Ridge’s New American Single Malt Was Finished in Wine Barrels

As we recently reported, American single malt is finally a legally defined category in the U.S., something that many distilleries have been hoping would happen for years. One of those is Cedar Ridge Distillery in Swisher, Iowa, a member of the American Single Malt Commission and a major champion of the cause. Cedar Ridge produces both whiskey and wine, and those two worlds have come together beautifully in a new American single malt that was aged in barrels previously used to mature…