Cask No. 4.256

Cask No. 4.256

A dark palette palate

Highland,Island

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After 13 years in ex-bourbon wood we transferred this into a first-fill PX hogshead. The panel didnt catch the smoke right away, but it soon become evident smoked pork, kippers, smouldering peats and beach bonfires. Otherwise, the nose gave us the sweetness of toffee, marzipan, raisins and manuka honey; some nuttiness; dried seaweed and whelk saltiness and just a hint of something industrial, like a mechanics oily rags. The palate offered blackcurrant jam, malt extract, black bun, coffee, dark chocolate, fruit leathers and stir fried cavolo nero altogether a symphony of deeper flavours if palette, not palate – the colours would be dark.

Cask: First-fill Pedro Ximenez hogshead
Age: 15 years
Date distilled:January 2005
Alcohol: 56.0%
USA allocation: 60 bottles