SMWS 65.5 Old School Speyside

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A fantastic old Imperial with lots of dusty and woody sugars and oodles of fruit sweetness in this one. Befitting its age this becomes drying and leathery with some great tannins too. I suspect the rechar HH was a finish here as it would have been unusual to have been the initial cask but it has worked wonders on rejuvenating this spirit. 91/100

INVERCLYDE DISTILLERY UNVEILS FIRST UNIQUE CASK DESIGN IN A CENTURY WITH £100M DEAL

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Inverclyde’s first zero-carbon distillery has signed a £100 million deal with one of Spain’s oldest sherry cask producers to secure a decades long supply of ‘infinity casks’  – marking what is believed to be the first unique cask design for the Scottish Whisky industry in more than 100 years.

Inverkip-based Ardgowan Distillery has commissioned Bodegas Miguel Martín to construct the sustainably sourced European oak casks, at a cost of 30 to 40 times more than standard whisky casks.