Product Description
There’s a wonderful feeling of getting away from it all as industry fades to the sweet and aromatic with just a hint of harbourside jaunts in the morning. After a day of leisure its a feast for the senses with rancio, fir woods and iberico ham with cards, cocktails and all manner of spiced syrupy sweetness.
Tasting Notes
Cask No. 93.226: Just transitions
Ripe Fruits & Honey | Campbeltown | 1st fill ex-bourbon barrel | 9 y/o | 59.0% ABV
The slightly industrial note we once expected from this make has receded. We detected harbourside boats or being inside a biscuit factory, but the aromas were mainly fruity, sweet and aromatic – pineapple, melon and mango, a custard danish, marshmallows and golden syrup. On the palate, tropical fruits cavorted with sugared almonds, coconut and lemon bonbons; drying off to walnut, tea leaves, fennel seeds and orange peel. Floral notes arrived on the reduced nose bringing lavender, sweet pea, chamomile and jasmine. The palate majored on syrupy strawberry meringues, peach melba and custard tarts, with earthy hints of orris root and oak to finish.
Cask No. 149.17: To sup by starlight
Dried Fruits & Spices | Highland | 1st fill Spanish oak PX butt | 9 y/o | 61.7% ABV
A superb initial aroma of Iberico ham, flambéed banana with dark chocolate, glazed pecans and boiled ham greeted us. We also noted pork scratchings with paprika, date molasses and botrytis raisiny sweetness. Water brought cloves, orange oils, cocktail bitters and dark 'n' stormy cocktails with the richness of spicy pumpernickel bread. The neat palate opened with chilli-spiked hot chocolate, maraschino juices, manhattan cocktail vibes, coffee and walnut cake and pomegranate syrup – a real broad church profile we thought. Water revealed further wonderful notes of stem ginger in syrup, resinous fir woods, aged calvados and rancio.