Cask No. 10.278

Viajando al oeste a casa

$165

When hosting our recent SMWSA Tour to Islay, I was surprised to learn how many members consider this distillery their favorite. Tucked away in the northern reaches of this magical island, Distillery 10 does it the old school way and creates equally memorable and transportive drams. Our 2025 Gathering cask is one such single malt that happens to have seen maturation in an ex-bodega sherry cask. A special dram for this special occasion!

  • Flavour Profile:
    Deep Rich & Dried Fruits
  • Age:
    12 years
  • Region:
    Islay
  • Cask:
    First-fill ex-bodega PX barrique
  • ABV:
    61.3%
  • Distilled Date:
    March 7, 2013
  • USA Allocation:
    238
  • VOL:
    700mL

Tasting Panel Notes

A superbly sherried aroma full of herbal tonic wines, apricots, candied citrus peels, crystallised ginger and aged mead greeted the Panel. A flutter of heather ales and salty earthiness hung in the background. With water it became really expressive, with pecan pie, dark malt loaf, boozy tiramisu, walnut and coffee cake, and salted liquorice. There was a lovely gamey touch underneath all that as well. The palate when neat was laden with dark fruit cordials, aniseed, orange travel sweets, old fashioned cocktails and pipe tobacco. Reduction brought out a lovely flavour of dried exotic fruits, prunes, dates and dark fruit teas with hibiscus flower, leading to a wonderfully salty and drying aftertaste full of salted almonds and Iberico ham. This was matured in a bourbon hogshead for nine years before being transferred to a first fill ex-bodega PX barrique.

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