Official tasting notes.
Nose: Canned peaches, dark roses, and a hint of clove with coconut cream, prunes, coffee beans, chocolate and rich field honey. Deep, deep deep.
Palate: Really gets the taste buds whirring! Creamy, cake batter, jammy with delicious cooking spices, ruby grapefruit peel, apple cake and a fun hint of dried mango. A lovely buttery shortbread and malty flavour throughout.
Finish: Coconut cream and a wave of dark jam leads to the top of an apple pie sprinkled with sugar. Then a long, warm, summery breath of orange rounding back to the classic fortified wine notes of prunes, plum sauce, dates and toasted almonds which doesn’t really end, it just stays with you.
Sullivans Cove 12 Year Old American Oak Single Cask TD0199 700ml 47.5%
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Part of Sullivans Cove Cask Variations series that yielded 479 bottles.
Details
700ml: 47.5%alc
Age: 12 years
Region: Cambridge, Tasmania
Cask type: American Oak Ex-Tawny
Bottler: Sullivans Cove
Cask No: TD0199
Filled on: 15th of June 2007
Decanted on: 29th of October 2019
Individually Numbered
Bottling Notes
Part of Sullivans Cove Cask Variations series, this American Oak Tawny Single Cask TD0199 is a different kind of American oak, laid to rest in a single 300-litre American oak cask previously used to mature Australian tawny rather than an ex-bourbon cask like their standard American Oak expression. The result is a whisky that exhibits both the rich fortified wine character of tawny port-style wine as well as the bright oak and vanilla of American oak for a flavour profile that sit somewhere in between our standard French and American Oak expressions. Note that this whisky is not “finished”, but rather spent its entire 12-year maturation in a genuine ex-tawny cask.
– Heather Tillott, Head Distiller comments:
“This superb whisky is both comforting and exciting to the palate, recalling the mouth-watering flavour of a fruit-laden pastry like a French tarte tatin made with peaches, cardamom pod and bay leaf.”
This was a mailing list only release that sold out in 24 minutes on the SC website with only a handful made available to retail.
Strictly one per person!
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