Dewar’s Cask Series at The Whisky Exchange – Scotch Whisky News
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DEWAR’S CASK SERIES
Innovation has been at the heart of Dewar’s whisky for more than 150 years, and the new Dewar’s Cask Series stands testament to that. Launching with two brand-new expressions – Dewar’s Caribbean Smooth, aged in ex-rum casks and Dewar’s Ilegal Smooth, the first Scotch whisky to be aged in ex-mezcal casks – Dewar’s prove once again that they’re still at the forefront of cask maturation.
Established by John Dewar in 1846, Dewar’s is one of Scotland’s best-known and most-awarded blending houses, and it is innovation that has driven the company’s reputation for more than 150 years.
CARIBBEAN SMOOTH
AGED 8 YEARS
£25.75
(£36.79 per litre)
Blended from up to 40 different single malt and grain whiskies, each aged individually and again once married together, all before being finished in the finest Caribbean ex-rum casks, Dewar’s Caribbean Smooth is an easy-drinking and impressively flavourful whisky.
ILEGAL SMOOTH
AGED 8 YEARS
£25.75
(£36.79 per litre)
Crisp, refreshing and unexpectedly smoky, Dewar’s Ilegal Smooth combines the defining flavours of two very different cultures to create something altogether more exciting. The first ever Scotch to be finished in ex-mezcal casks, this sweet and smoky dram is whisky as you’ve never tasted it before.
Ageing has always been at the heart of the Dewar’s philosophy, and the people behind the whisky pride themselves on the fact that every expression that bears the Dewar’s name also bears an age statement. In the new Cask Series, Dewar’s enthusiasm for age statements meets its passion for innovation, as the team behind more than a century of great whisky meticulously matures spirit from its extensive stocks in carefully-selected and often unusual cask types – with surprising, exciting and delicious results.
ABOUT DEWAR’S
Dewar’s blended Scotch whisky has amassed more than a thousand awards in its century-and-a-half, and it’s easy to see why. From its inception, Dewar’s whisky was focused on considered ageing, careful blending and a quality product – and those philosophies remain at the heart of Dewar’s to this day. As the rules and regulations around Scotch whisky production and maturation continue to shift and change, we can’t wait to see what this true heritage producer and inspirational innovator does next.
