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Key Facts About This Single Malt Scotch
Bottler:
Founders: Jack Breslin and Dana de Vos
Release: Brothers in Arms
Distillery: Auchroisk
Region: Speyside, Scotland
Age: 14 years
Distilled: February 2009
Bottled: October 2023
Cask Type: Palo cortado sherry quarter cask and firkin cask
Cask Ref: UC024
Alcohol by Volume: Cask strength at 54.5%
Outturn: 243 bottles
Bottle Size: 700ml
Bottled: Natural colour and non chill filtered
Auchroisk 14 Year Old Tasting Notes
Official tasting notes
Nose: A whole box of spices, sandalwood and honey mix with lighter aromas of pineapple and maybe Lipton Peach Ice tea.
Palate: A rich and rounded dram, spotted dick cake, hazelnuts, raisin bread, butterscotch and orange gummies.
Finish: The sweet breadiness fades slowly leaving vanilla, oak and a touch of cloves in its wake.
About Uncharted's Brothers in Arms
Auchroisk is a completely un-peated Speyside whisky famous for producing a stunning single malt. The bulk of this liquid has historically been the heart of some pretty famous blends. However, some of this really lovely distillate does find its way to the independent whisky world and indy bottlers can create some pretty marvellous whisky with it. This is a part of the job which Jack and Dana love: taking great spirits, matching them with hand selected maturation wood, and showing off a distillery character often lost to blending and chill-filtration.
What Jack and Dana Love About this Whisky
This whisky has had a super interesting maturation period that begs to be experienced…
Having been distilled in January of 2009, this cask was matured in ex-bourbon wood (surprise surprise…) before Uncharted Whisky got it. Having sampled the spirit, it was clear that the distillate was excellent but the wood needed an upgrade. The Auchroisk single malt was then transferred into two beautiful ex-Palo Cortado sherry casks, one small cask, a quarter cask, and one very small cask, a firkin. These casks not only held Palo Cortado sherry previously (a rare, dry and refined sherry style) but also previously held mature Benrinnes single malt. Sounds delish eh?
The mosaic of additive maturation from the bourbon wood, from the Benrinnes spirit and the Palo Cortado sherry seasoned wood has come together beautifully with the canvas that the Auchroisk distillate offers. The result is a beautiful bread and butter pudding dram with a lot fruit.
Bottled at cask strength of 54.5% ABV at 14 years old, you’d be mad to miss this vatting of the two Brothers In Arms casks.
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