For years, getting your hands on a Woodinville single barrel meant knowing a guy — a specific retailer, a whiskey club, or a trip to the distillery to bottle one yourself. That’s about to change.
Starting July 7, the Washington-based distillery is taking its Single Barrel Cask Strength 7 Year Bourbon and Single Barrel Cask Strength 7 Year 100% Rye national for the first time, both at an MSRP of $69.99.
The program, like most single barrels, requires a good bit of sampling: “I personally taste hundreds of barrels and pick only the best ones for this offering to ensure they are something very special,” head distiller Brett Carlile says. All of his picks are aged at least seven years, which he says “adds a tremendous amount of depth and character.”
Because every bottle comes from one barrel, the proof shifts from release to release — that’s the deal with cask strength, uncut and unfiltered.
Another interesting fact: a single barrel yields around 180 bottles on average, so even “national” here doesn’t mean unlimited. Both will be available at retail nationwide, online, at the Woodinville tasting room (open daily), and at the brand’s newer Quincy, WA location, which runs by appointment.
From Washington state to national
Woodinville was started in 2009 by two lifelong best friends, Orlin Sorensen and Brett Carlile, who had zero whiskey experience and cold-called the late Dave Pickerell — the Maker’s Mark legend — to mentor them. Grain-to-glass, a single-family farm in Quincy, the whole thing. Luxury giant Moët Hennessy eventually bought them in 2017, but the craft bona fides are real.
For a brand like that, a nationwide single barrel is almost guaranteed to be interesting. This is the stuff whiskey nerds actively hunt, precisely because it’s inconsistent; no two barrels taste alike, and the proof goes with it.
Keeping that program hand-picked while scaling it nationally is a real needle to thread — and at $69.99, this isn’t the $200-plus allocation-bait a lot of “limited” cask strength turns into. It’s a barrel-proof, single-barrel whiskey you could theoretically just walk in and buy, which feels like a relief in 2026.
Where to Buy It
Both expressions roll out nationally at retail and online at woodinvillewhiskeyco.com starting July 7, at $69.99 each.
You can also grab them in person at the Woodinville tasting room (open daily) or the newer Quincy, WA spot, which takes appointments.
