Description
We imagined watching an elegant yet passionate and feisty bolero performance on a dusty wooden stage before the two guitarists started playing a honey nut medley. The taste was as fervent, plenty of oak spice met chewing tobacco, Jamaica ginger cake and chilli-roasted walnuts with cranberries. Water tamed the ferocious, yet fun, flavours on the nose with aromas of exotic wood, teak oil and a raspberry walnut vinaigrette. On the palate now a wonderful sweetness – red fruits with vanilla, orange peel and herbal honey – with a lingering peppery warmth in the finish. Following 12 years in an ex-bourbon hogshead, we transferred this whisky into a first fill Spanish oak oloroso hogshead.