Official tasting notes
Colour: Golden straw.
Nose: Ripe bananas, almonds and vanilla milkshake.
Taste: Banoffee pie smothered in custard. A little nutty, with a touch of chilli pepper.
Infrequent Flyers Batch 8 ‘Knockdhu Distillery’ 8 Year Old Bourbon Cask 700ml 58.9%
$160.00
Release No. 65 from Cask No: 1 that yielded 210 bottles.
Details
700ml: 58.9%alc
Age: 8-year-old
Region: Speyside
Cask type: Ex-Bourbon
Bottler: Alistair Walker Whisky Company
Distillation Date: 2013
Distilled at: Knockdhu Distillery
Description
Here’s a youthful single malt scotch whisky from the brilliant Alistair Walker that was distilled in 2013 at Knockdhu Distillery in Speyside. The spirit was then matured in a first-fill ex-bourbon barrel for 10 years with an out-turn of 210 bottles resulting in a classic style single malt. Like all Infrequent Flyers expressions, this whisky is bottled in its most authentic form – un-chill filtered with natural colour.
Limited stock has been allocated for the Australian market.
About Infrequent Flyers
The ‘Infrequent Flyers’ range is a series of single cask bottlings of Scotch whiskies brought to us by Alistair Walker, of Deanston, Tobermory, BenRiach, GlenDronach and Glenglassaugh fame. The expressions are predominantly single malts, though now and again Alistair does release a single grain. The brand name ‘Infrequent Flyers’ refers to the nature of many of the casks that are bottled – often whiskies from lesser-known distilleries that are of excellent quality, but have never been widely or consistently available.
About Knockdhu Distillery
The Knockdhu distillery is located in Knock, Banffshire and is owned by Inver House Distillers Limited. Established in 1894, it’s one of Scotland’s smallest whisky distilleries and due to confusion with the similarly named Knockando distillery, the whisky now produced by Knockdhu is sold under the name ‘AcCnoc’ although they do use the name Knockdhu from time to time adding to the confusion.
The distillery draws its water from burns on the nearby Knock Hill with a production capacity of 1.5 million litres a year. Independent bottlings from the site are far and few between with Knockdhu whisky used as a core blending component in the Inver House Blends.
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