Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 550: Numero Dertien PX versus Virgin Oak

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries two very young, Dutch whisky expressions. What if a father, son, and son-in-law acquire an iStill and have their own farm? That’s right, they start making whisky. Together with his son Arend Jr. and son-in-law Jaap, Arend van Nieuwland, born in Breda, gets to work on farm De Wieke in Veendam, where they make whisky using their own home-grown barley – once malted – with an iStill. Last summer, the first two expressions were released under the label ‘Numero Dertien,’ the name of the farm. The whisky is, of course, young – specifically 3 years old – and matured in a PX cask and a Virgin Oak cask. Mark puts them head-to-head.

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