Overview

• On July 31, a freight driver presented convincing documents at Westland’s Burlington warehouse for a New Jersey-bound load that never arrived.
• The haul is valued at nearly $1 million and includes 3,000 bottles of the limited 10-year Garryana, roughly half of this year’s 7,500-bottle release.
• The Skagit County Sheriff’s Office is running an active investigation following an Aug. 6 incident report from Mecca Worldwide Logistics.
• Westland says it has tightened supply-chain controls and plans to release 4,500 remaining Garryana bottles on October 18 at its Seattle tasting room.
• Industry experts say reselling the stolen whiskey will be difficult due to its recognizability and U.S. three-tier alcohol rules, with past large thefts sometimes surfacing overseas.