Product Description
The Society is known for exploring unusual and characterful cask maturations that shape distinctive flavour profiles. After spending 12 years in an ex-bourbon hogshead, this whisky was transferred into a first-fill HTMC hogshead for the remainder of its maturation. This secondary cask influence adds deeper oak complexity, richer spice notes, and a creamier texture to the spirit. We call this cask influence heavy toast medium char.
Join Julien Willems, our Whisky Quality manager as he retraces some of the most unusual casks and flavours the SMWS has shared in Unfiltered.
Tasting Notes
The varnished hush of an antique library, home to all the arcane tomes on the secrets of coopering, lingered over blowtorched watermelon and golden-syrup popcorn, its butterscotch sweetness curling through the pages of leather-bound books. Melting butter and candied ginger whispered from dusty shelves, while thick tannins marched in carrying liquorice torpedoes and old saddles. A splash of water unlocked tonka bean toffee, rum-and-raisin fudge and the citrus lift of satsumas, before mandarins and bergamot-scented shortbread settled like well-thumbed pages. It finished with a genteel nod to garibaldi biscuits dipped in earl grey tea and a lasting trace of liquorice. After spending 12 years in an ex-bourbon hogshead this was transferred to a first fill heavy toast hogshead for the remainder of its maturation.