128.20 Delightfully bonkers

Description

The Welsh powerhouse returns to Aussie Outturns with Cask 128.20 Delightfully bonkers! Distillery 128 has amassed quite the cult following in recent years with its incredibly rich and syrupy flavours (thanks in part to their Faraday still system), and this 8-year-old continues delivering what members have come to expect. Sweet, Fruity & Mellow is positively right with bursting flavours of tropical fizz, passionfruit syrup, and citrussy desserts. Bottled at cask strength and entirely from a single cask — don’t miss the latest 128 this month.

This distillery has a unique still that accentuates fruity characters, and holy-moly, the fruit here is frightening. The insanely tropical nose explodes with kiwis, melons, passion fruit mousse, peach melba and totally tropical fizzy pop. A lilting reprise for the palate – melon, passion fruit, mango and lemon meringue pie, but now with bass notes added. Water agitates the nose into more complex rhythms and counterpoints – vanilla pod, tea tree oil, wheat beer, cask char, tobacco and eucalyptus – it ripens and falls from the heavenly bough. On the palate now – a banana bonanza, charred pineapple, apricot, prunes, rum baba and rosewater – delightfully bonkers.