HERBS ON A SPONGE CAKE

LIGHT & DELICATE

CASK No. 2.134

$245

REGION Speyside

CASK TYPE 1st fill bourbon barrel

AGE 15 years

DATE DISTILLED 7 April 2006

OUTTURN 141 bottles

ABV 59.4%

AUS ALLOCATION 48 bottles

Delightful aromas of heather honey, buttered popcorn and ginger biscuits merged with fresh flowers and flambeed banana on victoria sponge cake. On the palate the sponge cake had a thick layer of cherry jam and a topping of vanilla icing. Zesty limes and pink grapefruit mixed with green grass before finishing with balsa wood and oak spices. Herbal notes and liquorice emerged with water along with honeysuckle, buttery pastry and rum and raisin ice cream. Flavours of juicy orange and lemon sorbet now combined with cinnamon, fennel and tarragon before turning into menthol and fresh pine sawdust on the finish.

GRAPE-STOMPING

DEEP, RICH & DRIED FRUITS

CASK No. 36.178

$190

Limit of one bottle per member

REGION Speyside

CASK TYPE 1st fill Oloroso hogshead

AGE 11 years

DATE DISTILLED 11 February 2010

OUTTURN 281 bottles

ABV 57.4%

AUS ALLOCATION 42 bottles

We walked the dog on a sunny autumn afternoon through the forest collecting, in leather satchels, mushrooms and berries. We stopped for a break and enjoyed pumpernickel bread with serrano ham, sherrysoaked raisins, dark Jamaican gingerbread and Ribena, a blackcurrant-based soft drink. After a drop of water, we were transported to the Douro valley where having picked grapes we took part in the traditional grapestomping, crushing them with our feet, hard work but great fun. To keep our spirits up we were served toffee popcorn as well as salted caramel chocolate chip cookies. After nine years in an ex-bourbon hogshead, we transferred this whisky into a 1st fill Oloroso hogshead.

REGION Lowland