72.112 Delicate, delightful and dainty

Description

Imagine you’re marooned on an island — no, don’t worry, there’s a bar on the island, a tiki bar in fact, and they’re serving you a tropical acai bowl with coconut shavings, apple and pear slices, vanilla yoghurt, and cinnamon dusting as you look over to the rainforest beside you, close your eyes, and take in the aromas of the various plants and trees. This dram is a bit like that. It’s great for those end-of-spring days when the weather becomes warmer and you can sit outside and enjoy a sizeable pour of Cask 72.112. This cask saw a 50/50 split of ex-bourbon hogshead maturation and ex-Panamanian rum barrel maturation.

An intensely sweet, floral aroma greeted the Panel like a fragrant stroll through a sun-drenched orange grove with a white rum and elderflower cocktail in your hand. Plenty of freshly cut sugar cane on the palate with cinnamon dusted green apples and baked peaches with vanilla, nutmeg and cloves. After reduction we imagined walking through a luscious rainforest, exotic flowers such as orchids and bird of paradise next to tropical foliage plants with large leaves. Now we enjoyed strawberry tarts, pineapple upside cake and a mojito. Following four years in an ex-bourbon hogshead, we transferred this whisky into a re-fill barrel previously maturing rum from Panama.