1.280 Conversation stoker

Description

From the team

We’re pretty lucky to be able to get single-cask expressions from this famed sherry distillery in ex-bourbon wood. What awaits each member is a melange of citrus, aniseed, and just a touch of petrichor. a true conversation stoker worthy of Dracula’s most intimate dinner parties. Try it with a dash of water to bring out a touch of medicinal herbs. This is technically the first lot of Distillery 1 bottlings we’ve seen through in an Outturn this year in Australia branch, so don’t sleep on them — only 36 to go around!

Tasting Panel notes

The Panel found the neat nose to be wildly herbaceous at first; some lovely aromas of green medicinal herbs muddled into cough syrups plus undertones of wintergreen aniseed and boiled lime sweets. We also noted mint leaves, nettles and white grapes. Reduction upped its beery, bready qualities; lovely rich notes of real ales, sandalwood, petrichor and malted milk biscuits. The palate was naturally sweet at first, with barley sugars, sweet breakfast cereals, honey, lemon rind and baled hay. Water brought more lightly medicinal herbs, milk bottle sweeties, cooking apples, golden sultanas and the fattiness of camphor.