8.48 Flamenco dancer’s Coffee break
$179.00 inc. GST
Out of stock
Description
From the team
Full maturation, start to finish, in a custom SWMS PX sherry butt. We’ve had a string of these phenomenally powerful 8’s through, and this is another cask that we filled directly from the source nine years ago. Dried fruits, espresso grounds, and flamenco floorboards. A punchy and fun sherried jaunt from this increasingly cult distillery. A healthy number of bottles to go around.
Tasting Panel notes
The initial nose was a pleasing mixture of dried cranberries, sloes, plum tart and cherry brandy with leather boots, liquorice, espresso and treacle sponge (a flamenco dancer’s coffee break?). We found more of the same on the palate (red grape fruit leather, cherry and ruby port) but this time the earthier notes were of dark chocolate, game sauce, carob and cheroots. Adding water made the nose seem darker and spicier, with gingerbread, clove, chilli chocolate, marzipan, molasses and sugary espresso dregs. The palate maintained its flavourful intensity, finding cinnamon pastries, roasted walnuts and brazils, prunes, sobrasada and wine-soaked oak.
