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cask

[kask, kahsk] / kæsk, kɑsk /
NOUN
rounded container for liquids
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If you let him, Alasdair Day, the co-founder and master distiller, will speak at length about oak species and cask types—I particularly enjoyed a limited release aged in Sicilian Marsala wine casks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

Investors buy a cask of whisky when it is first produced and then hope that it rises in value as the spirit ages in the barrel.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2025

Another bottle from the same cask was sold by Sotheby’s in 2019 for almost 1.5 million pounds, until Saturday a record for wine or spirits.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 18, 2023

But Gerry's lament is drawn from a cask of finely aged romance no twenty- or thirtysomething could possibly access, a heretofore unknown cocktail on this show.

From Salon • Sep. 28, 2023

When her flagon was empty, Arya hurried down to the cellars to refill it from the cask, and quickly returned to her pouring.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin




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