Velvety smooth

$660

Flavour Profile:

Spicy & Sweet
Age:

35 years
Region:

Speyside, Lossie
Cask:

First-fill Pedro Ximenez butt
ABV:

56.4%
VOL:

700mL

Notes

About Velvety smooth: Cask No.12.87 ‘Velvety smooth’ is a co-star of the romance film, ‘The Years Between’. It doesn’t get any better than this! After 35 years in sherry oak, you would expect a very cask-driven profile. Somehow, this one has retained the perfect balance between spirit and oak after nearly four decades of maturation. It’s the ultimate dram to celebrate life’s most precious moments.

Tasting Panel Note: The aroma was breath-taking, with unsmoked maple bacon, butterscotch pancakes, candied Seville oranges, black tea and cloves ... and the list could just go on and on. On the palate we found a truly irresistible combination of sweet caramel, smooth butter and vanilla, making it a classic butterscotch coffee syrup poured over maple ice cream. After careful reduction, the scent of rum and raisin fudge alongside damson jam and amaretti biscuits appeared. To taste there was initially a little spice coming from ginger beer and cinnamon buns before we enjoyed lavender shortbread and a glass of Amarone wine. Following 29 years in an oloroso butt we transferred this whisky into a first fill PX butt.

USA allocation: 90 bottles