Macduff 2011 East Village Whisky 10 yo 65,2°

 

 

 

65,2°

Distillery : Macduff - Highlands

Sherry Hogshead

Independent Bottling 

By East Village Whisky Company

Limited Edition 

Single Cask 

Bottled in 2021

Unchillfiltered, Uncoloured, Cask Strength

Totally Unpeated

 

 

 

I'm still exploring some samples from East Village Whisky Company, a German bottler founded in 2017 by Peter Ostendorf, and this Macduff caught my eye. Aged for 10 years in a Hogshead Sherry, it filled 118 bottles. But what intrigued me was the alcohol content: 65.2°. Is the alcohol well integrated? Does this strength translate into a great intensity of flavour? In short, it makes you want to taste it. So I'm going for it. Not to be confused with another Macduff of the same age and distilled in the same year, which can also be found in this bottler's catalogue. As the cask numbers are not available, I differentiate them with the alcohol content. 

 

 

 

Let's Taste It : 

The Sherry is intense, with lots of red fruits, blueberries, blackcurrants, acerola, fermented watermelon juice. Slightly burnt wood, earthy notes and liquorice. Cherry clafoutis, blackberry jam, apricot liqueur. Green tomato dough fritters. On the palate, it's syrupy, redcurrants, pomegranate, raspberry coulis, intense spices, nutmeg, hazelnut. The finish is as long as it is explosive, a real shrapnel bomb, salted butter caramel, antesite, melted butter, mahogany, a zest of lemon. Celeriac.

 

In Short, 

It's pretty much what you'd expect. The cask is of good quality, giving a fairly intense Sherry Bomb with rich, varied flavours. The alcohol is fairly well integrated, but it's best to drink another whisky beforehand to prepare the palate. The finish is obviously very powerful, but also very long and deep, which is really the main quality of this whisky. The palate is a little lighter, and the youth of the product is noticeable. They should have waited a few years before bottling, but the alcohol content would have gone down. You can still find a few bottles on Whisky-maniac, a German website that I often visit. If you're a fan of Sherry Bomb, it's worth a try. 

Score : 89

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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