Another knock-out line up of whiskies!

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Cask No. 26.105  Bumblebees by the sea 

29 years old; refill butt;  57.6%; Light & delicate

Dark runny honey over crackers, salted lemon and kiwi fruit. Citronella candles burning in a damp pine forest. Juicy Fruit gum and white peppery heat. Aspen bark and spearmint washed up on a seashore. Dunnage warehouses and green Starbursts.

Cask No. 123.14  Playful spices buzz the mouth

9 years old; 1st fill barrel; 57.4%; Spicy & sweet

The nose has sweet woody spices – (humbugs, cinnamon apple pie, Liquorice Allsorts), leather, dead leaves and spearmint. The palate has a playful buzz of exotic spices, oriental wood, After Eight mints, gin, blackcurrant and fermented honey. Curious but playful and enjoyable.

Cask No. G13.1  A complete revelation

4 years old; virgin oak puncheon; 58.3%; Juicy, oak & vanilla

Luscious mango and pineapple juices accompany lychees, Bounty Bars and fragrant lemongrass. Fresh and fruity with toffee, marshmallows and damson jam. Gingerbread spice, creamy milk chocolate and “impossibly rich vanilla custard”.  With water, cherryade, butterscotch, orange oil and fruit cake are entwined in seemingly endless complexity.

Cask No. 73.69  Dark side eclipsed by sweet joys

22 years old; refill sherry butt; 52.9%; Deep, rich & dried fruits

The nose is a tapas and dessert menu (tortilla, hazelnuts, sherry, crème caramel, apple granny cake). The palate oozes sweetness (amaretto, vanilla, panna cotta, Nutella, carrot cake), but with a gamey, bittersweet darker side of Hoisin duck, figs and burnt cake.

Cask No. 27.107  To the manor born

16 years old; refill gorda; 56%; Deep, rich & dried fruits

Thick vanilla ice cream with tinned peaches, creamy yogurt and sherry trifle, then polished leather in a variety of scents and rich fruit cake. Sweet then tannic to taste, with bitter chocolate and sandalwood. Water raises treacle toffee and sticky toffee pudding, hazelnut praline. An elegant taste with dark chocolate and macadamia nuts.

Cask No.  53.210  Fantastic stuff

24 years old; refill hogshead; 53.3%; Peated

The nose has peat smoke, sea breezes, bandages, tea chests, tobacco, puff candy and smoked salmon; caramel, tawny port and pork crackling with water. The palate delivers good smoke, toffee apples, liquorice, five-spice powder, salt and vinegar chips and smouldering sawdust.

Cask No.  127.43  Kissing a smoker

12 years old; refill barrel; 65%; Heavily peated

A damp shed with oil paints and then roasted meats on the nose. Oily overalls and linseed oil on reduction followed by duck in hoisin sauce. Lots of peat, ashy on the palate with lasting cigarette smoke on the finish. Epic!

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