Penderyn 18 Year Old Red Wine Cask Finish Single Cask Single Malt Welsh Whisky (700ml) - Australian Exclusive

The term 'Sherry bomb' is sometimes flaunted when talking about a whisky drawn from a super-active cask. In the same way, what we have here could well be described as a 'Shiraz bomb'. The deepest, darkest Penderyn we've ever encountered due to long aging and a finishing in red wine casks from Bullers in Rutherglen, it fuses Penderyn's seductive malt with stewed red fruits, wine tannins and a spicy finish mixing dried coconut, cocoa and lingering red berry notes. Tasting a bit like the whisky equivalent of Lamingtons, or perhaps fruit mince pies, it's exclusively bottled for the Australian importers with a yield of 157 bottles, trumping last year's 17 year old as the oldest release to date from the distillery. 50% Alc./Vol. Non chill filtered. Tasted from a 40ml sample.

Notes from the importers... Nose: Rich blackberries and blackcurrants, gooseberries, ripe cherries. Dried fruits: prunes, sultanas and figs. Salted caramel and demerara sugar. Taste: Dark fruits: black grapes and black cherries, oak tannin dryness and cocoa bitterness. Vanilla, tingling spices of black pepper, nutmeg and a black coffee hint. Finish: Dark fruits fading into bitter dark chocolate with notes of clove and black pepper.