Sold outJun 2025In short · George Dickel (Cascade Hollow) (Tennessee, USA), 7 years.
“On the nose, we were sawing wood, mostly pine and railway sleepers; as a reward for our efforts we got toffee nut brittle and chocolate-covered fondant eggs.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS B5.17 is a single cask of George Dickel (Cascade Hollow), in Tennessee, USA, 7 years old, bottled at 64.3%, released in the Jun 2025 Outturn. Every Society bottle numbered B5.x is from George Dickel (Cascade Hollow).
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
In Cascade Hollow, a wooded fold of the Tennessee hills near Tullahoma, George Dickel has made Tennessee whisky since 1884, and spells it whisky, without the e, in the Scottish manner Dickel himself preferred. What sets it apart is the cold: before the new spirit is mellowed through thick beds of sugar-maple charcoal, the Lincoln County Process that defines Tennessee whiskey, Dickel chills it down, in the belief that winter-made whisky was always the smoothest. Owned by Diageo, it is the quieter, softer counterpoint to its more famous neighbour, a mellow, waxy, faintly minty style, and a rare and intriguing sight in a Society dominated by Scotland.