Scotland the brave

$135

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Flavour Profile:

Deep Rich & Dried Fruits
Age:

13 years
Region:

Speyside Spey
Cask:

First-fill Spanish oak Oloroso hogshead
ABV:

58.3%
VOL:

700mL

Notes

About Scotland the brave: This hefty expression spent a third of its life in Oloroso sherry wood and sufficiently transports us to a Tapas crawl through Southern Spain. The sherry firmly makes itself known on the nose and palate yet maintains incredible balance between the meaty distillate and mouth-watering sherry character. You’ll be very happy you tried it!

Tasting Panel Note: The nose evoked "a tapas bar in Seville", "fruitcake on an old school desk" and "eating candy floss on a merry-go-round". The palate (tapas again) served jamon, black olives and pinchitos morunos de pollo (Spanish chicken skewers), barbecue sauce on ribs and a mixture of blackcurrant jam and cough syrup. The reduced nose had toffee apples, sugared almonds and maple-glazed pecan pie, then hints of pumpernickel bread, honey and eucalyptus. The palate retained some pleasant tannic astringency – tree bark, clove, orange peel and root beer; a real Spanish/US fusion. This was nine years in ex-bourbon wood, then spent the rest of its maturation in a first fill Spanish oak oloroso hogshead.

USA allocation: 102 bottles