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Reconstruction of George Washington's 1797 distillery near Mount Vernon, Virginia. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

Distillers mix batch of Scotch whisky at Mount Vernon

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf

Reconstruction of George Washington's 1797 distillery near Mount Vernon, Virginia. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Reconstruction of George Washington’s 1797 distillery near Mount Vernon, Virginia. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
MOUNT VERNON, Va. (AP) – Master distillers from Scotland are wrapping up a three-day visit to George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate to whip up a special batch of Scotch whisky.

On Wednesday the distillers will fill specially constructed oak barrels with the hand-crafted single-malt liquor to begin a three-year aging process.

The distilling is the latest in a series of limited production runs that have been done at George Washington’s reconstructed distillery.

After the Scotch is aged, a limited edition of 100 bottles will be auctioned off for charities around the world. In 2006, distillers using Washington’s recipe for Rye whiskey produced bottles that sold for $100,000.

At the end of the 18th century, Washington’s distillery was one of the largest whiskey producers in the country.

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Reconstruction of George Washington's 1797 distillery near Mount Vernon, Virginia. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Reconstruction of George Washington’s 1797 distillery near Mount Vernon, Virginia. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.