HERBS ON A SPONGE CAKE

How can a whisky that’s at full cask strength of 59.4% be “Light & Delicate”?!

It’s amazing the power of flavour and how it works. Flavour profiles aren’t linked to cask or age, they are purely the flavour, and this is precisely that. It’s the second oldest distillery code, bottled at a lovely 15 years in a 1st-fill exbourbon barrel, and just dances and floats like the chit chat on a Sunday arvo. Buttery popcorn, Victoria sponge cake, grassy herbs and fresh pastry. A real ‘time and place’ moment whisky.

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LIGHT & DELICATE

REGION Speyside

CASK TYPE 1st fill bourbon barrel

AGE 15 years

DATE DISTILLED 7 April 2006

OUTTURN 141 bottles

ABV 59.4%

AUS ALLOCATION 48 bottles

Delightful aromas of heather honey, buttered popcorn and ginger biscuits merged with fresh flowers and flambeed banana on victoria sponge cake. On the palate the sponge cake had a thick layer of cherry jam and a topping of vanilla icing. Zesty limes and pink grapefruit mixed with green grass before finishing with balsa wood and oak spices. Herbal notes and liquorice emerged with water along with honeysuckle, buttery pastry and rum and raisin ice cream. Flavours of juicy orange and lemon sorbet now combined with cinnamon, fennel and tarragon before turning into menthol and fresh pine sawdust on the finish.