Dram data:
Distillery:Â Wolfburn
Bottler:Â Original Bottling
Distilled:Â 2013
Bottled: March 2016
Age: 3 years
Limitation:Â 16000
Casks: refill quarter casks
Alcohol: 46%
unchillfiltered and uncoloured
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Tasting notes:
It seems just like yesterday that the Wolfburn distillery way up in Thurso, in the north of Scotland, was constructed and started production. It doesn’t feel like it’s already a year ago that I paid them a visit. And yet here it is: Their first general release of a three-year-old Single Malt Scotch Whisky. Well, let’s get cracking and see how it turned out!
Colour: pale white wine
The nose opens on a waft of alcohol – it is bottled at 46% –Â with a hint of peat smoke from the maturation in quarter casks which previously held peated whisky. There are also notes of shortbread with sweet icing, vanilla pods, freshly ground malt, sweet grape juice and a slight grapefruit rind and juice tingle. The quarter casks did a great job on the clean distillate – no harsh youthfulness anymore. Continue reading “Tasting: Wolfburn 3 yo First Release”