This new release is a wonderful collaboration with the Asseilly family at Château Biac in Bordeaux to create a truly unique expression of our island spirit. This highly limited bottling holds whisky which has been fully matured in 5 rare ex-sweet white wine casks, sourced exclusively from their estate.
Just 720 bottles priced at £125.00 will be made available in the UK* through an online ballot open for 7 days and to be drawn on Thursday 20th of March at 10am.
The whisky is presented in beautiful packaging inspired by the tracks, roads and vinyards of the estate as well as the colour of their Secret De Château Biac sweet white wine.
We chose to bottle this special expression of our spirit at 50% abv, which we believe enhances the flavour of this exceptional whisky to an even greater degree. The vibrant aromas and floral flavours are chimeric and intriguingly hard-to-pin down as they change within the glass.
“Initially, there’s a gentle mix of peat smoke with liquorice and sweet wine. Then comes summer notes of green leaves and ripe sweet tomatoes which dissolve into ripe pears with hints of dark plums and cherries.
The fruit flavours become lighter, tropical with sweet lemon and a trace of lime. There are the florals of spring flowers with touches of jasmine and underlying it all a mixed spice and vanilla.
Finally, there’s a lovely finish of ripe fruit, new leather, and lingering peat smoke.”
Enjoy with oatcakes, honey and roquefort cheese, some sweet lemon drizzle cake, or simply savour on its own.
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We are proud to celebrate our connections to Tony and Youmna Asseily, the Lebanese family owners of a small vineyard called Château Biac in Langoiran, France.
In 2017, we were delighted to be introduced to Tony and Youmna through a mutual friend. We heard their wonderful story, learned about their stunning vineyard in Bordeaux, and discovered that Tony was a real lover of Scotland and its whisky.
He told us he would love to fill some of his French oak casks, which had been used to vinify their sweet white wine, ‘Secret de Château Biac’, with our island spirit to see how it might mature and develop.
So, we agreed to collaborate, and the result has been not just a true friendship between our two homes but a rare expression of our whisky and a dram we are all very proud of.
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