Cask No. 18.54 Feis Ile Celebratory Bottle After 13 years in a

After 13 years in a refill hogshead we transferred this whisky directly into a Sauternes cask for the remainder of its maturation

Cask: First-fill ex-Bodega Ximenez Spinola Pedro Ximenez barrique

all washed down with a spiced rum slush

Reduction gave us peat ash

with white chocolate and ripe figs – an attractive dessert of a dram

Cask No. 18.54 Feis Ile Celebratory Bottle After 13 years in aFor us it was not love at first sight, or should we say sniff? but it's worth getting to know better. Briny, smoky aromas arrived next to rubber on hot asphalt, as well as a strong Assam tea this was spicy and malty. On the palate some found it slightly dirty, dry and yeasty, but with impressions of dark chocolate shavings, a coffee cake and a chilli spice. With water one Panellist cleaned the vinyl seat of a Trabant (a classic East German car) before