10th Street Wine Cask Finish Peated Single Malt is produced by 10th Street Distillery in San Jose, California. The whiskey starts in first-fill bourbon casks and is finished in local Pinot Noir casks made of toasted French oak. It's bottled at 55.2% ABV.
Nothing wild here, and the palate keeps the theme mostly in line: Moderately smoky from front to back, with an undercurrent that runs heavily to baked apples, lemon peel, and just a hint of cherry. It’s never clearly — or even modestly — evocative of the red wine barrel, which is a bit unfortunate, and it doesn’t come across at all the way whiskies like Kilchoman’s red wine matured whisky present themselves.