Cask No. 68.123

After 13 years in an American oak oloroso butt, we then transferred this into a first fill Spanish oak oloroso butt. The sherry influence shimmered on the nose, with prunes, dark fruit leathers, black grapes and demerara – all underpinned by oak, liquorice, ginger biscuits, brazil nuts and sweet pipe tobacco. On the palate, a dark mysterious power was tempered by seductive sweetness – dark chocolate, raspberry and coconut bars, treacle, burnt fruit cake, cough syrup and elusive Eastern spices. Adding water brought crème brûlée and Moroccan dried fruit markets to the nose, and hot cross buns and pears cooked in honey and clove to the palate.