All About Sherry
International Sherry Week celebrates all things sherry. But what does that have to do with whisky? Our first ever bottling in 1983 was a sherry cask-matured whisky from distillery 1. Today we continue to celebrate sherry and whisky with our sherry cask maturation programme – which you can learn all about in our free-to-watch feature documentary, Scotch & Sherry: A Flavour Odyssey. Head to our Scotch & Sherry page to watch, find an event or shop our other Sherry Week offerings.
Tasting Notes
We combined selected 10-year-old casks from this distillery, then transferred that single malt into various casks for further maturation; this is one of those. The nose was curiously colourful – green (grilled padron peppers and sage), yellow (saffron, honey and aloo gobi) and red (menthol and camphor balm, paprika). The palate combined milky, malty bedtime drinks or chocolate-coated malt honeycomb with strawberries, raspberries and a finish of walnut oil, cinnamon and chilli. Water introduced umami-like aromas of a forest floor, grilled mushrooms, miso caramel and wholefood shops. The palate had red wine jus on lamb, dried figs, prunes, peanuts, hazelnuts and dark chocolate brownie; an enigma wrapped in a mystery.