Cask Intro
If you’ve been keeping up with Unfiltered, you’ll know that we have two routes to create our Two to One ultra small-batch releases: marrying casks just before bottling, or marrying casks and letting them undergo at least two years of additional maturation. This cask follows the latter method taking two seven-year-old ex-bourbon hogsheads from distillery 72, and marrying them into one larger cask, a first fill Spanish oak Pedro Ximénez butt. The result, Society No. 72.129: Sip sherry in a cigar smokeasy is a completely different way of experiencing this spirit that’s far more commonly found as a component in a well-known blended malt than in a cask strength expression matured in PX.
Tasting Notes
We combined two seven-year-old ex-bourbon hogsheads from the same distillery into this cask for further maturation and marrying. The result is fascinating – the nose had candied orange peel, marzipan, ginger and leather, but also fragrant wood, putty and church incense smoke. We found smoked ham on the palate, but mainly the rich sweetness of cinder toffee, dark sherry, raisins, dates, chocolate and plum pie. On the reduced nose, treacle, date molasses and dandelion and burdock all competed with walking through a cigar smokeasy. The palate now had sherry, stout and barbecue-sauce sweetness, before a finish of camphor mingled with burning charcoal.