Beginnings
2010–2015Woodinville Whiskey, formerly known as Puget Sound Distilling, opened for tours on Woodinville Redmond Road in September 2010, advised by former Maker's Mark master distiller Dave Pickerell.1
Peated
Woodinville Whiskey Co. is a distillery in Woodinville, Washington, founded in 2010 by Orlin Sorensen and Brett Carlile.1,2,3 It makes its spirit in Woodinville and trucks it about 160 to 170 miles over the Cascade Mountains to age in Quincy, Washington.1,3,4 Moët Hennessy bought it in 2017.1,2,5
Woodinville Whiskey, formerly known as Puget Sound Distilling, opened for tours on Woodinville Redmond Road in September 2010, advised by former Maker's Mark master distiller Dave Pickerell.1
Two more large sheds near Quincy followed, with room for more than 10,000 barrels between them.7 There, in a processing building, the spirit goes into barrels, ages at least five years through hot summers and cold winters, and is bottled.1,3,4
In 2014 it moved into a new distillery and tasting room in Woodinville, built around a historic tavern and planned at four times the size of the original.1,5,8 It had a new 1,320-gallon pot still from Germany, joined to a 16-plate rectifier, a column that further purifies the spirit.1,5,8 In July 2017 Moët Hennessy bought it, its first American whiskey purchase; the deal took in the distillery, warehouses and whiskey stocks, and the founders were to keep running it.1,2,5 By 2022 the distillery made six times as much whiskey as before the purchase.8
Its corn and rye are all grown by the Omlin family on their farm in Quincy.4,6,7 The milled grain is mixed with purified water from the Cascades.4 The mash ferments for four days in one of eight 9,000-gallon fermenters.4 It is then pumped into copper stills of 1,320 gallons, made in Germany, and the spirit passes through a column whose eight trays refine and purify it.4
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