Cask No. RW8.1

About Awesome Sauce: I had the pleasure of visiting this distillery with Kai in 2018. The ryes are just off the charts and this .1 is a wild one. Loads of spiced fruit, menthol and honey give way to vanilla and dark chocolate. 100% rye and, in a word, awesome.

Tasting Panel Note: Steady yourself, as this was something very unusual the nose had buckets full of dried spiced red fruits, treacle, manuka honey, incense and resin. Nothing could prepare us for the taste neat, like a spicy Jamaican sarsaparilla beer: intense flavours of liquorice, caramel, vanilla and wintergreen, with a finish delivering an almighty heat-rub eucalyptus freshness. Water added the aromas of barrel-aged maple syrup, butterscotch, vanilla pods and cocoa powder. On the palate things were now a lot softer, with a cup of black leaf tea, a Chelsea bun and blackberry jam on toast. The never-ending finish had plenty of wood spice and dark bitter chocolate.

USA allocation: 72 bottles