Gold Medal Winner at the World Whisky Awards 2020!
Details
700ml: 60%alc
Age: 4 years
Country: Australia
Region: South Australia
Cask type: American Oak/Port Cask
Bottler: Tin Shed Distilling Co
Release date: January 2019
Whisky masters Ian Schmidt and Victor Orlow rarely ever produce cask strength expressions of Iniquity. When they do, it carries a gold label and is called “Gold Batch”. This particular release is Gold Batch No.4 which is part of a four bottle Gold Label series that started in August 2016.
It’s a rare cask-strength whisky aged for 4 years in an American oak, single port cask and is now a museum expression (discontinued) that has had much thought and care given to its evolution.
In the words of Ian Schmidt:
“A sister cask to the one that held Gold batch 003, filled on the same day into the same type of cask that sat side by side. There are strong similarities between the two batches. The extra year has not tamed this whisky’s spirit, it has turbo-charged it! Serious cask strength whisky nerds will love this dram, but if you find yourself overpowered by the alcohol and losing it in the corners, engage the traction control in the form of a few drops of water and the full and many pleasures of this dram will be revealed”.
Gold Medal – 2020 World Whisky Awards
Nose: Honey on toast, lifted spirit, peanut brittle, mint toffee, wine gums, sour fruits (plums and cherries), obvious sherry/port barrel influence.
Palate: Warming, nutty (walnuts and pecans), syrupy, vine cane woodiness.
Finish: Drying, nutty, sherry or port influence, forward alcohol, lingering dry wood tannins.
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