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Angel’s Envy Just Unveiled a Pair of Unusual Limited-Edition Whiskeys
You can’t really accuse the big distilleries of jumping on the American single malt bandwagon after the TTB finally codified the category late last year—after all, the whiskey was put into barrels many years before that happened. But surely there was some foresight involved. In the case of Woodford Reserve, the whiskey was distilled 12 years ago, a time when American single malt was really within the purview of small, independent distilleries. As I reported recently, Woodford just released its first foray into the category, the latest of the big names to do so. I finally got to try it, and it turns out that while it’s better than those released by other legacy distilleries, it’s still not as good as what the craft world is making…