Cask Intro
This month you have the opportunity to try not one, but two bottlings from distillery 39. Society No. 39.323: Sophisticated cinema kiosk is one of our Two to One bottlings. Our whisky team have taken two casks of eight-year-old single malt from Distillery 39 married them and then matured them in a first fill European Oak PX Butt. As with all of our releases, it’s not until it’s approved by the Panel that a whisky is bottled (12 years of age in this case). For contrast, there’s Cask No. 39.302: Party pleaser, a cask from the same distillery that has spent its full 13 years in a first fill ex-bourbon barrel. With two different flavour profiles and maturation journeys, this is the kind of compare and contrast you’ll only find at the Society.
Tasting Notes
Things opened with a rich nose of cashew butter, salt crystals and rapeseed oil drizzled on toasted ciabatta and served with summer berry cordial. The palate matched the nose, and added vanilla fondant, birch beer, blackcurrant taffy and flambéed blueberries with brown sugar. Water gave the nose a splash of lapsang souchong, a squeeze of orange, a dash of chocolate bitters and toffee popcorn. The palate finished with autumnal notes of nutmeg, root beer, ginger chocolates and jammy red wine. At eight years of age, we combined two ex-bourbon hogsheads from the same distillery into this cask for further maturation and marrying.