Tasting Notes
The colour was a shiny, smoky topaz and smoky it certainly was! We mulled over a match made in heaven, with manzanilla sherry and Spanish oak-smoked, air-dried, finely sliced beef served with toasted almonds. Smoke was also very pronounced on the palate, evoking a smooth, creamy and roasty oatmeal milk stout which dragged us into an uncharted deep, dark depth we never wanted to leave. We eventually did though, and with the addition of a drop of water the scent was that of toasted malted brown bread with a hazelnut spread, as well as burnt cocoa and fondant biscuits. To taste, we found roasted coffee, cocoa nibs and burnt raisins. At seven years of age, we married two hogsheads from the same distillery into this cask for further maturation.
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