Penderyn 6 Year Old Ex-Tawny Port Cask Matured Single Cask PT266 Cask Strength Single Malt Welsh Whisky (700ml)

"If James Bond wants his dry Martinis made with whisky, I suspect this would be his choice." - Jim Murray's Whisky Bible 2022

This beautiful rose-tinted Penderyn was matured in ex-Tawny Port cask #PT266 yielding 724 bottles at cask strength (60.5% abv). It was the first time Penderyn offered such a cask to the European market (previously we believe they'd been reserved for export). Distilled in June 2013 and bottled in 2019, we've stumbled across a handful of cases that were lost in the supplier's warehouse. They represent part of a small consignment of large Portuguese port pipes sourced by Penderyn, but this particular barrel was extremely old, probably having held wine for decades before reaching the distillery, and it reads like an alpha barrel. Jim Murray has ranked it as one of the best Penderyns to date in his 2022 Bible. This kind of wine input typically infuses aromas and flavours of black grapes, fresh plums, figs and red berries. They'll be set against drier, nutty oak and peppery spices. Very limited stocks. Non chill filtered.

Other reviews... Wonderfully dry and sophisticated with the grape skin as close to concentrated as you'll ever find; such precision to the cask, such concentration needed to work out the spellbinding layering, you'll need to mop your brow as you concentrate. Most amazing is how the malt forms thin, delicate stratum among the much more intense fruit tones. The sugars, after their initial burst of acacia honey, are on ration and it is the spiced dryness of the fruit which dominates.... but that fragile malt ensures the salty plum and grape skins don't get all their own way; I'd say the spice fade on this must be nudging perfection. The fruits fatten at last, briefly, before going back into their skinny shell... If James Bond wants his dry Martinis made with whisky, I suspect this would be his choice. 95 points - Jim Murray's Whisky Bible 2022