Double Matured: New Oak into Armagnac

CASK SERIES | SUMMER 2024 | SINGLE MALT WHISKY

 

RELEASE NOTE

Welcome to the Cask Series of whiskies; a collection of unique expressions, each celebrating the marriage of our distinctive spirit with specially selected, individual casks.

For this expression, we selected a new French oak cask for the first 5 months of maturation, before transferring to a small, first-fill Armagnac cask for the remainder of the maturation period. The entire cask has been disgorged and bottled at cask strength, without chill-filtration or colouring. Each of the 139 bottles has been hand-filled and individually numbered.

This is the first publicly available, double matured whisky to be launched from the distillery.

Positive Impact. £5 from every bottle is donated to our charity partner, Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust, to fund life-changing apprenticeships for young people in rural areas, to help protect vital UK habitats (YDMT Registered Charity No. 1061687).

DISTILLER’S COMMENTS

“This is a dram to savour; it develops wonderfully with time in the glass. Five months in new oak imparted that remarkable colour, along with a rich bouquet of oak spice and cedar wood. Moving the spirit into an Armagnac cask allowed for a gentle continuation to maturity. A generous helping of creamy vanilla and muscovado sugar softens the spice, giving way to baked peach and cherry blossom. A splash of water is your friend here, calming the tannin to reveal banana loaf, dried fig and rum-soaked raisins, culminating in a luxuriously long and complex finish.” - Abbie Jaume, Head Distiller

TASTING NOTES

  • Nose: baked peach, muscovado sugar, oak and cherry blossom.

  • Taste: vanilla pods, rum-soaked raisins, soft spice and leather.

  • Finish: long and warming, with dry oak tannin.

SUGGESTED SERVE

  • Short: neat, or with a generous dash of water.

RELEASE DETAILS

  • 52.1% ABV (cask strength)

  • 700ml

  • 139 bottles

  • Natural colour

  • Non-chill filtered

 

SPIRIT SPECIFICS

  • Cask profile: matured for 5 months in new French oak, then transferred to a first-fill ex-Armagnac cask for a further 3 years, 5 months.

  • Wood profile: 100% French oak

  • Cask size: 110 litres

  • Casks filled: May 2020 and October 2020

  • Maturation time: 3 years, 10 months

  • Maturation location: Cooper King Distillery

  • Grain: 100% floor-malted English Maris Otter barley

  • Yeast: distiller’s yeast

  • Fermentation time: 6 to 7 days

  • Distillation: double distilled on a 900 litre copper pot (‘Neilson’)

  • Batch number: BG02B

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