Cask No. 4.314

Cask No. 4.314  

Sitting in the sauna

Highland, Island

Have you ever had a California roll dipped in spicy soy sauce, sitting in the sauna while a lime/mint flavoured water is added to the hot coals – if you haven’t, nose this sample! There was thyme, lemongrass, indeed a whole potpourri was on fire and the only thing we could do was dowse it with a bottle of Pouilly-Fume Sauvignon Blanc from the Loire valley. Reduction gave us more smoke, more floral and sweet aromas and on the palate, have you ever heard of coconut bacon which is made with coconut flakes mixed with salt and spices and baked in the oven? At nine years of age, we combined selected hogsheads from the same distillery into a variety of different casks to develop further. This is one of those casks.

Cask: First-fill barrel
Age: 13 years
Date distilled: January 2008
Alcohol: 61.4%
USA allocation: 84 bottles