Cask No. 12.88
Perfect armchair dram
$175
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Flavour Profile:Deep Rich & Dried Fruits
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Age:15 years
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Region:Speyside, Lossie
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Cask:First-fill American Oak barrique, STR
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ABV:59.9%
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VOL:700mL
Notes
About Perfect armchair dram: Cask No. 12.88 ‘Perfect armchair dram’ is a lead character in Across the Finish Line. Alright folks, we’ve decided to get extra nerdy with this one. To create this whisky, took a 12 year old Speysider in an ex-bourbon hogshead and transferred the liquid into a 1st fill STR American Oak barrique with virgin oak heads. STR stands for “shave, toasted and re-charred”, which is a process of removing the inner lining of a cask so that the liquid inside of it can interact with more active wood. It’s like the whisky equivalent of curling up with a good book—comforting, warm, and utterly satisfying
Tasting Panel Note: The nose was a party mix of chocolate raisins, chocolate peanuts, foam shrimps and liquorice comfits, treacle tart, pecan pie and chargrilled pineapple. The impactful palate combined blackcurrant jelly and rhubarb pie with dark chocolate, grated coconut and spun sugar; then iced gingerbread, black pepper, aniseed, clove and wine-stained oak produced a wave of spice. The reduced nose mingled the sweet and citric notes of chocolate limes, lemon cheesecake and orange liqueur. The palate, with chocolate brownies, espresso, rose Turkish delight and a dry, nutty, wine-leather finish, seemed the perfect armchair dram. After 12 years in ex-bourbon wood, we transferred this whisky to a first fill American oak barrique with new toasted heads.
USA allocation: 120 bottles
