Cask No. 9.235

Cask No. 9.235  

The proof is in the finish

Speyside, Spey

An array of associations on the nose neat with red fruits, spicy oak, oven-roasted corn on the cob drizzled in melting butter and stewed rhubarb. On the palate sticky toffee pudding with caramel sauce and ice cream, a hot buttered rum bread pudding and a hot chocolate Catalan cream. After the addition of water, we had a slice of a clootie dumpling with Drambuie custard and a lingonberry crumb pie while to taste cinnamon bark, sweet red peppers and flambeed pears with a chilli chocolate sauce. Devilishly delightful, creamy, as well as exotically tropical. Following fifteen years in an ex-bourbon hogshead, we transferred this whisky into a 1st fill Spanish oak Oloroso hogshead. 

Cask: First-fill Spanish oak Oloroso hogshead
Age: 17 years
Date distilled: March 2004
Alcohol: 55.8%
USA allocation: 102 bottles