Aroma: Bright florals (orange blossom) and plenty of tinned stone fruit (tinned peached in syrup). Vanilla and Coconut from the bourbon cask and malt from the spirit gives a beautiful apple crumble with vanilla custard aroma.

Taste: Sweet malt upfront with a clean and honeyed spirit that carries well across the palate. Oak comes in late with tobacco leaf and leather.

Finish: A lighter style whisky (despite the 61% abv) with a nice balance between the spirit and the cask influence. Plenty of American oak, corn bread, and barley sugar to finish.

This release is a special one for us, because these casks were filled with the very first spirit to run off our stills in our new distillery. While the new distillery was officially opened on 03 December 2022, we got the sign off to start distilling in it over a year earlier with this spirit coming from our first commissioning run on 29 November 2021.

In the distillery we have a tradition of carefully selecting the music we listen to as important runs take place, especially when we are making the cuts. For this, our very first spirit run in our new distillery, our Head Distiller, chose Queens of the Stone Age to provide the sound track on that unseasonably cold November day and their song ‘No one Knows’ for the all important second cut.

This spirit has spent the last two and a bit years maturing in a selection of 20L bourbon casks, a cask type that has become an increasingly large part of our maturation portfolio due to some amazing results from past bourbon casks.