Superb and surprising!

$110

Flavour Profile:

Spicy & Sweet
Age:

9 years
Region:

Speyside, Spey
Cask:

Refill hogshead, heavy toast/medium char
ABV:

63.1%
VOL:

700mL

Notes

About Superb and surprising!: Distillery 115 produces a spirit that begs for warmer weather, so it’s release is a timely one! Aromas of flowers and herbs are a typical find and, in this cask’s instance, accompanied by darker notes of brown ales and brown breads (the former due to the distillate and latter due to cask protocol). This is a really lovely malt from a lesser known distillery.

Tasting Panel Note: The neat nose expressed mineral oils, strop leather and fresh linens in abundance. After that we also noted heather flowers, shilling ales and brown bread spread with honey. Reduction evolved things towards sunflower oils and toasted pumpkin seeds, with wee hints of hessian cloth and dried herbs. The palate opened with juicy fruit chewing gum, pineapple syrup and mango purée – surprisingly fruity we all thought. It also displayed a lovely peppery and menthol quality as well. With water it remained nicely fruity and pulpy in texture, but also became waxier, beerier and more emphatically bready. A superb and surprising dram! This was matured in a bourbon hogshead for four years before being transferred to a refill heavy toast medium char hogshead.

USA allocation: 72 bottles