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
This first fill STR oloroso-seasoned barrique (after 12 years in ex-bourbon wood) has produced a nose as contrapuntal as a Bach fugue. We found prunes, figs and dates wrapped in bacon, spun sugar and toasted coconut playing deftly alongside fresh laundry, apple slices, rosewater and mint; a total enigma. The bold and intense palate had marmalade, custard tarts and golden syrup sweetness against the dryness of clove-studded orange, white pepper, coriander and wine-soaked oak. The reduced nose turned earthier, with notes of sandalwood oil, anise, tomato vine and a hairdresser's salon. The palate now offered a welcome synthesis of ginger Edinburgh rock, raspberry wasabi and a bay leaf and sage finish.