Destilleret 30/8-2001 og aftappet 21/7-2026 med i alt 428 flasker.

Tasting Notes: NOSE: Salted caramel, apple skins, petrichor                   PALATE: Raspberry ripple ice cream, mother’s pride plain loaf, grilled red peppers                                                                                                          FINISH: Smoked Almonds and quince jelly

Well it’s clearly not Scapa or we’d tell you. Naming rights are a funny old thing but you now what this is even without having to revert to what3word coordinates! As bottlers we still struggle to understand why some casks can be named and others cannot, there are reasons but we still think it’s a bit silly, especially when it’s as obvious as this… just you wait until you see what’s next on the list…Anyway, the important bit, the whisky. This is a vatting of two refill hogsheads, sister casks with low fill levels. Low fill levels aren’t great for yield, but they do make magnificently oxidised whisky. We know we’re preaching to the converted here, but refill wood really gave this spirit the space and time it needed to get to this point. We think good refill wood is one of the things that really separates Scotch whisky from the world whiskies, allowing for longer maturation times without the spirit being dominated by wood. Faint peat comes across here as distant smoke, not dominating but seasoning the spirit, adding to the salinity and depth, but with that sweet fruitiness that only comes from age. It’s right up our street and we think cracking value. Puffins on the label because they’re the coolest seabirds ever and make for a better label than the Churchill barriers that Chris wanted to use, and yes we did make Alex try those as a design. Exceptional value, well aged single malt, you know you want some.