Cask No. 95.96

Hothouse reverberation

$130

60 Left

  • Flavour Profile:
    Lightly Peated
  • Age:
    11 years
  • Region:
    Speyside Spey
  • Cask:
    Second-fill barrel
  • ABV:
    59.4%
  • VOL:
    700mL

Notes

Salty coal came covered in butter and splashed with strawberry wine. The palate was equally heavenly: sooty, with a clear salinity and joined by kelp, wild berries and millionaire's shortbread. Water offered a luxurious baconnaise, spread on burnt toast, along with peanut butter and plum jam on the nose. The palate had now become a steak sandwich with sweet onion jam, washed down with smoked peach iced tea. Enjoy the nostril-flaring minty finish. After seven years in an ex-bourbon hogshead, we transferred this to a PX ex-Islay cask – previously used to mature 29.268 – for the remainder of its maturation.

USA allocation: 275 bottles

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