Tasting Notes
Deep, dark, and menacing, yet majestic aromas of embers, wood oil, roasting chestnuts and roasted duck in an orange liqueur sauce. The taste neat was amazingly fruity and lusciously sweet with an interplay between wood smoke and ginger spice but also rare glimmers of, difficult to describe, ‘rancio’ as found in cognacs aged 40 years and beyond. After the addition of a drop of water the scent of honey roasted oranges and smoked frangipane appeared while on the palate we imagined (as we were all non-smokers) enjoying a hand rolled Cuban cigar with a woody, warm, walnut character leading to a mint chocolate finish. Following 17 years in an ex-Oloroso butt, we transferred this whisky into a first fill PX butt.
