Cask: New European oak puncheon
Australian port wine and salted toffee apple
211 'Those were the days' hails from one of the most sought-after sites in the Highlands
This was matured in an American oak ex-oloroso sherry butt for 13 years before being transferred to a Spanish oak ex-oloroso sherry butt that had previously been used to mature SMWS bottling 149
millionaire shortbread and a finish of pine wood and peach stones with lingering cinnamon and ginger
Cask No. 4.303 Oily & coastal Cask: New European oak puncheonImmediately this one betrayed its Orcadian origins. Huge notes of black pepper, heather smoke and hints of orange caramel, toasted hazelnuts and old, leathery bodega sherry funk. Beyond that we also noted dried nori, Iberico ham and natural tar. Water emphasised these very old nutty, rancio sherry notes and brought more cured meats, dried herbs and some bitter chocolate. The neat palate was surprisingly soft on arrival, lots of of sticky malt loaf,