Cask No. 26.117

Cask No. 26.117         

Silky smooth sundowner

Highland, Northern

After a long period of silence, the first comment was ‘this is a whispering dram’. The aromas were very elegant, but one had to ‘listen’ carefully and then it revealed yellow gorse bushes on a cliff side, vanilla & Tonka bean scented candles and freshly crushed mint lemonade. The taste neat was grippy, teeth coating, like smoking vanilla and orange flavoured tobacco in a hookah. With a drop of water a lot more perfumed; Tarocco orange, eucalyptus and sage hand cream and on the palate, as smooth as silk.  After 13 years in a refill hogshead we transferred this whisky directly into a Sauternes cask for the remainder of its maturation.

Drinking tip: Aperitif at sundown

Colour: Pale straw
Cask: Second-fill Sauternes hogshead
Age: 14 years
Date distilled: April 2001
Alcohol: 56.8%
USA allocation: 90 bottles