Cask No. 96.22

Cask No. 96.22

Rocky road spice freakout

Highland, Eastern

The Panel noted oak polish, leather slippers, old cigar humidors and wood spices at first. Followed swiftly by many herbal qualities such as marjoram, thyme and cough syrup. Then rye bread and blood oranges as well. Reduction brought honeysuckle, gorse, strawberry laces, hessian and charred wood. The palate was equally robust with sawdust, strap leather, biltong and sweet, overripe stone fruits. With water this morphed into brandy snaps, milk chocolate and marshmallows, with rum and raisin, soot and hint of roasted butternut squash.Previously in a bourbon hogshead for 7 years.

Cask:First-fill Pedro Ximenez hogshead
Age: 9 years
Date distilled:October 2008
Alcohol: 59.1%
USA allocation: 72 bottles