Cask No. 4.304

Cask No. 4.304  

A proper summer dram

Highland, Island

We imagined carrying peat slabs in a wicker basket across heathery moorland as we took a break and shared a robust intense red wine (100% Grenache) out of a leather Bota curved wineskin. Bursting with cherry and black fruit flavours and tempered with smoky notes of spice and pepper - a proper BBQ dram! Following reduction, the scent was what we imagined a Spanish style rum that was matured in ex-smoky Islay whisky barrels would smell like, sweet but also plenty of smoke from roast lamb. After fourteen years in an ex-bourbon hogshead, we transferred this whisky into a shaved, toasted and re-charred 1st fill PX barrique.

Cask: First-fill Pedro Ximenez barrique, shaved/toasted/re-charred
Age: 16 years
Date distilled: January 2005
Alcohol: 58.3%
USA allocation: 120 bottles