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The first release of Cotswolds single malt to find its way to Canada! The whisky is made from locally grown floor malted barley. It is matured in American oak and reconditioned ex-red wine casks. The whisky is bottled at 46% without colouring or chill-filtering.
This whisky was featured on Day 14 of our 2018 KWM Whisky Advent Calendar.
From the Producer
We use traditional production processes and equipment to produce our Cotswolds Single Malt. Locally-grown malted barley is milled and then mashed in our 0.5-tonne mash tun, mixing the milled grain with hot water to produce worts. Yeasts are then added. We run the fermentation for more than 90 hours in order to generate plenty of fruity flavour compounds alongside the alcohol produced.
Then the distillations begin. First, in the wash still (Mary), and a second in Janis, our spirit still. In the spirit run, we only select a small section – the heart cut – which is taken unusually early in the distillation to capture the fruity notes and avoid the heavier, rougher elements that appear at the end of the run. The end result is a light, colourless, fruity new make spirit. This is diluted to 63.5%ABV and put into casks to mature. This release has been aged for just over three years, and is bottled non-chill filtered, with no added colouring, at 46%ABV.
700ml mlAndrew’s Tasting Note
Nose: warm, buttery, almond paste filled croissants; big orange citrus and Scottish shortbread cookies; beer nuts and maple glazed almonds; malty and herbaceous.
Palate: round, chewy and very malty; the barley really shines on the palate; the whisky is young but the spirit very elegant; more orange and nutty almond tones along with both shelled and sugared peanuts; there is a touch of leather on top of a base of creamy vanilla.
Finish: light and short in length, but pleasant.
Comment: this is a young single malt that shows oodles of promise; can’t wait to see how this evolves over the next couple of decades!
Distiller's Tasting Note
Nose: Notes of honey and butterscotch layered with light fruits (peaches & apricots), a hint of marzipan.
Palate: Strong notes of tannin-rich malt, oils and dark sugar with lots of spice, caramelised Seville orange marmalade.
Finish: Long and resinous, with dark red fruits and a hint of treacle.
$123.99
According to the Cotswolds team, this one is "American and Spanish oak hogsheads and butts, seasoned with Oloroso and Pedro Ximénez sherry." They also qualify that by saying it's entirely sherry cask matured (don't let the American oak throw you off) full the entire term. It's rather brilliant seeing England back in the single malt game, no? The English whisky renaissance is going to be fun to watch.
9,900 bottles.
Natural colour, non-chill filtered, and bottled at 57.4% abv.
$121.99
This English single malt has been matured exclusively in ex-Bourbon before bottling at 59.1%. Non-chill filtered. Natural colouring.
Producer Description
"Belonging to our Cask Expressions Collection, our Bourbon Cask Single Malt Whisky is created from select first-fill ex-Bourbon barrels in which our rich and fruity single malt spirit has been patiently matured. These premium American oak barrels are ideal for ageing whisky and impart delicious notes of vanilla and honey. This sweet and malty cask strength expression is a whisky for purists and a wonderful expression of our distillery character."
$124.99
A small handful of casks were selected from Cotswolds founder Daniel Szor's personal favorites. 'Uniquely active casks' were intentially targeted, to ensure a rich and expressive single malt. These were STR (shaved, toasted, recharred) American red wine casks which, as we can all agree, is the only way to use wine casks for maturing whisky.
Kidding.
Sort of. ;)
Natural colour, non chill-filtered, and bottled at 60.5%.
$68.99
Bottled at 40% this New Zealand single malt whisky was matured in ex-New Zealand red wine European oak casks, as well as ex-Bourbon barrels.
Producer Description
"Thomson Whisky brings you an update from the barrel. Made from 100% New Zealand grown malted barley, smoked using Manuka wood, and distilled through a hand beaten copper pot still, it’s our Manuka Smoke release in its youth."
