Distillery Dive Cask to be paired with Cask No. 85.96

About Walking the cool bodegas: 10 years in ex-bourbon wood allowed the benchmark orchard fruit, fig and fragrant spice notes of this full-bodied distillate to develop. Its final two years endowed the malt with nuttiness and baking spice character indicative of the Spanish oak Oloroso cask it was matured in. This is a transportive dram that will whisk you away to Southern Spain in an instant.

Tasting Panel Note:A truly complex aroma greeted the Panel as sweet, fruity notes of tangerine combined with winter berries alongside orange oil and vanilla as well as a subtle nutty dryness. On the palate, we found juicy honey-spiced oranges made using cardamom, cloves and cinnamon, as well as the type of subtle sweetness that comes from glycerine as can be found in a dry, old amontillado sherry. Reduced, we were reminded of the poem At Jerez by Carol Ann Duffy: … or walk the cool bodegas aisles where flor and oxygen grow talented in fragrances and flavours to sniff, sip, spit, swallow, savour … . Following 10 years in an ex-bourbon hogshead, we transferred this whisky into a first fill one-year seasoned Spanish oak oloroso hogshead.

USA allocation: 276 bottles