Producer’s tasting notes.
Nose: Marshmallows, milk chocolate, coconut and warm leather along with sweet and earthy malt, lemon curd tart and apple pie. Freshly cut ripe orange, and raspberry jam with the sweet, thick, briny air of an early Summer morning at the beach.
Palate: Gentle texture glides across and fills the palate, as does the flavour. It’s intense and full, but by no means overbearing but rather quite genteel. Ripe banana, fresh orange and lime juice, and a touch of mango. Coconut sugar, honey and caramel fudge fill out the sweet mid palate while pastry, macadamia and vanilla provide the earthy base notes. There is oak there, but it’s the stage for others to perform on, not a main character itself.
Finish: Jam, chocolate and shortbread biscuits (like a Wagon Wheel!), toasted walnuts and lots of coconut with Banana bread, lemon, and vanilla. A fun splash of lychee, blood orange and pineapple lead into a delicious mystery floral note. The texture is very long, full and very pleasant, carrying the malt and sea air along with it indefinitely.
Sullivans Cove 13 Year Old American Oak Refill Cask TD0080 700ml 47.1%
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Part of the first ever American Oak Refill release under the Cask Variations series that yielded 425 bottles.
Details
700ml: 47.1%alc
Age: 13 years
Region: Cambridge, Tasmania
Cask type: American Oak
Bottler: Sullivans Cove
Cask No: TD0080
Filled on: 24.02.2006
Decanted on: 06.09.2019
Individually numbered
Bottling Notes
American Oak Refill Single Cask TD0080 was distilled in February of 2006 and decanted in August of last year for a maturation of thirteen years in a single, 300L American oak cask. Unlike their standard American Oak ex-bourbon single cask label, this cask has never held bourbon. Originally commissioned by Sullivans Cove direct from the cooperage in the mid-1990s as a virgin cask, it was first filled with an older batch of Sullivans Cove single malt whisky
Bottled at 47.1% ABV, this cask is one of two being made available simultaneously as part of the first ever American Oak Refill release under their Cask Variations series.
– Heather Tillott, Head Distiller comments:
“Take your expectations and throw them out the window. This whisky is fascinating to both the palate and the mind.”
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