(Part 2 will publish tomorrow morning).
Someone at Fettercairn is listening, I like that.
The second release in their Warehouse series has seen them bring some rye casks into the mix. Previously, I’ve never had great experience with rye cask influence Scottish whisky. I always used to wonder why nobody did it, and then a few notably bad examples got released and it put me off. Always happy to be proven wrong, and here it is!
The spirit forward nature of this, with Fettercairns trade mark exotic fruit character has really produced something interesting. Legitimately interesting, not just ‘general whisky blurb interesting’.
Vanilla cream, pineapple, mango, carroway spice and green apples are all here and are happily dancing along with the natural presentation of this whisky. Fettercairn, I like what you’re doing. Please keep at it!
Welcome to this weeks episode of the show in which I’ll be looking at the Auld Goonsy’s single cask range from the relatively new Independent bottling company Global Whisky Ltd.
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Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 405: Dalmunach 6 Year Old 2015 The Octave for Saint Mac
Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tastes a young malt from a new distillery! Dalmunach is a new distillery, operational since 2014. It was built on the site of the old Imperial distillery. Our friends at Saint Mac, a Belgian whisky shop, selected this octave – a small cask of sherrywood – from Duncan Taylor. It contains a 6 year old Dalmunach at cask strength. Only 65 bottles were available and they sold out in a flash.
Kilkerran is adored. But what happens when it’s heavily peated…for less than £50. Magic.
A breathtaking combination of delicate peat (84PPM) and remarkable seeetness from some time being open. In all honesty, I don’t think I’ve ever come across a peated whisky that balances these flavours like this. The sweetness is unexpected, but arrived in the nose with aplomb of vanilla sponge and Madeira cake. The smoke is gentle but writhing constantly at corners of your mouth.
Genius.
