Cask No. 9.174

Cask No. 9.174 

Strawberry jalapeno ice cream

Speyside, Spey

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The aroma reminded one of us of cooking a venison steak in a red wine chocolate sauce whilst another would enjoy it watching an intense rugby match between Bordeaux and the Glasgow Warriors.  To taste, we were all at the after-game party with plenty of well-aged Lambic wheat beer (having lost some of its sourness and acquired a vinous bittersweet flavour with dark fruits in the background). Diluted we ordered ginger beer ice cream floats and had no churn strawberry jalapeno ice cream; sweet, spicy matched by a cool creaminess. After 13 years in an ex-bourbon hogshead we transferred this whisky into a 1st fill charred red wine barrique.

Cask: First-fill charred red wine barrique
Age: 15 years
Date distilled: March 2004
Alcohol: 55.0%
USA allocation: 72 bottles