Introducing Dancing Goat Presents Releases 002 & 003
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Dancing Goat Distillery has been on fire recently. The Wisconsin blender released two more expressions from their "Dancing Goat Presents" series. When it comes to quality at a good price, these bottles are hard to beat. The rye even elicited this response from Seelbach's tasting member, Brian Beyke "This Rye 4 U is stupid good". Rye 4 U is a six barrel blend of 6.5 years in once-used bourbon barrels. The blend finishes for 6 months in freshly dumped petit syrah port wine barrels. Dancing Goat "Quirky & Humble Blend" is 7-Year Bourbon in Quercus Humboldtii (Colombian oak).
You probably remember Columbian Oak from our Nulu Toasted Blend. While similar to American Oak, the Columbian barrels impart a great toasted baking spice note. They're reminiscent of a French Oak finish. It's an incredible tasting profile. Even more attractive considering the price!
The use of new oak barrels, and the demand for oak wood in oenology is increasing. Thus, it is necessary to search new wood sources to supply the current demand in cooperage. The aim of this work was to study the composition of ellagitannins and low molecular weight polyphenols (LMWP) by HPLC-DAD of green woods of Quercus humboldtii (Colombian), compared with typically species used in cooperage Quercus sessilis (French and Romanian) and Quercus alba (USA). In Colombia oak wood, the same LMWP and ellagitannins than in the traditional species were identified. The most abundant LMWP was ellagic acid, and its concentration was lower in Q. humboldtii and Q. alba than in Q. sessilis, so these two woods presented lower content of phenolic acids. Regarding phenolic aldehydes, Colombian oak wood only showed significant differences in the content of coniferyl and sinapic aldehydes in relation to French oak. Finally, total ellagitannins content of Q. humboldtii was lower than European oaks and similar to American oak (Q. alba). None of the ellagitannins studied presented significant differences compared to Q. alba. Thereby, Q. humboldtii wood was more similar in terms of phenolic composition to Q. alba than to Q. sessilis.
