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
The nose reminded us of ginger snaps with stewed brambles and apples, sweet cherry crumble with vanilla ice cream and old-fashioned treacle scones. On the palate, sticky pork fillets cooked in a garlic, mustard and maple syrup sauce with sliced apples were served on saffron rice. After reduction, we tucked into a Mediterranean pomegranate tomato salad made with extra virgin olive oil and fresh garlic, plus a pinch of allspice and sumac. The taste delivered toasted tea loaf with an olive oil spread and, in the finish, tropical fruits in abundance. Following 11 years in an ex-bourbon hogshead, we transferred this whisky into a first fill American oak PX hogshead.