60,6°
Distillery : Daftmill - Lowlands
1st Fill Oloroso Sherry Butt
Original Bottling
Limited Edition
Single Farm Estate
Bottled in 2020
Unchillfiltered, Uncoloured, Cask Strength
Totally Unpeated
In operation since 2006, but not having released a single bottle until 2018, Daftmill is a very unique distillery. Run by the Cuthbert brothers, it is first and foremost a farm, where a small amount of whisky, the equivalent of around a hundred casks a year, is distilled at quiet times of the year, in summer and winter. As the whisky is made entirely on site, from harvesting the barley to bottling, this is the only distillery to carry the Single Farm Estate label. The cask we're talking about was made from Optic barley, harvested on the farm in August 2006, malted in the summer of 2007 and finally distilled on 8 July 2009 in a 1st Fill Oloroso Sherry Butt. After 11 years of maturation, the cask has filled 649 bottles, and was then sent to the shelves of La Maison du Whisky for priority sale in France.
Let's Taste It :
Languorous but not overpowering sherry, salted butter caramel, blood oranges, barley sugar, mandarins, mirabelle plums, grapefruit, papaya, currants sprinkled with cinnamon, red fruits in the background, blackberries and bilberries. Alcohol is still present, and a bit of water needs to be added. On the palate, honey drips over morello cherries, a little nutmeg and walnut, brown tobacco crumbs, buttered Shimeji mushrooms. The finish is quite nice but not extremely long, with dark chocolate and coffee, clods of earth, cloves and light forest hints.
In Short,
Really interesting, full of varied fruits and sweetness, this little thing. However, it's very good but not sublime, because there are a few little flaws. It's a bit alcoholic on the palate, but the finish isn't that explosive, I'd have preferred the opposite. That said, it's really something to discover, unfortunately the price is exorbitant, even at auction.
Score : 89
To Be Listened While Sipping :
Eilen Jewell - I Remember You
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