Cask No. 5.117

Delightful Subterfuge

$240

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Flavour Profile:

Juicy Oak & Vanilla
Age:

19 years
Region:

Lowland
Cask:

First-fill barrel
ABV:

56.6%
VOL:

700mL

Notes

About Delightful subterfuge: This is the best kind of deceit, and a pillar of the Society experience – encountering a single cask whisky that is so unlike its distillery style whilst absolutely delicious. This is the case here with a firm, full-bodied Lowlander that is usually much lighter and shyer in the glass. A super-charged, yet perfectly charming, dram to delight in!

Tasting Panel Note: There was a surprising firmness about the nose on this one which discombobulated the Panel. Chalk dusters, custard slices, mineral oils, plum eau de vie and crisp green apples were all noted. A little bigger in style than usual for this classic triple-distilled lowlander, the Panel mused. With water the nose expressed cedar wood, nectarines, new leather and sunflower oil with a waft of meadow flowers. The palate was similarly thick and enticing with mechanical oils, heather ales, tangerine peel, oat and honey biscuits and impressions of aged dry riesling. Once again, slightly bigger and firmer in tone than usual we thought. With reduction the palate displayed rosewater, ripe green melon, pineapple cake, yellow plums and a hint of aged mead.

USA allocation: 30 bottles