Appearance: Oloroso, brilliant clarity, 8/10 viscosity.Nose: Big baked stone fruits and dark vanilla, old oaked sherry, and warm caramel with crisp toffee. Very old oak and sweet tobacco.Taste: Very big, round and smooth, concentrated dark malts with sherry, a hint of dark chocolate, brittle toffee and licorice.Finish: Long, warm sherried and old oak

We check and test every barrel, multiple times over the years. This is a labour-intensive process. However, there are the occasions we strike whisky gold and there is just cause to celebrate. Our Single Cask barrels clearly stand out among peers for their aroma, flavour, texture, individuality and depth of character. They are genuinely unique. As such we hand bottle these as 900 Standard Single Cask bottlings.

Two main whiskies comprise this hand selected Cask Expression. The first was matured in second fill French oak, ex-Apera casks to create a light honey, citrus and caramel whisky. The second was matured in a first fill French oak, ex-Tawny, Port cask to impart the characters of dried stone fruits, chocolate marmalade and pears. Both whiskies were then transferred into an American oak, ex-Jamaican Rum barrel for a secondary maturation to bond and to add rich lemonade and dark, nectary sugar flavours.<br>The term Belgian Blonde was identified as the best descriptor for this whisky, tasting something like a smooth, alcoholic, barrel aged Belgian Tripel Beer.<br>This coupling of oak, apera, port and rum has forged a unique Single Malt Whisky that embodies the Chief’s Son character, whilst adding incredible dark sweetness, intensity of malt and an exceptional depth of flavour.<br>With very limited distribution, this bottling offers a beautifully individual Single Malt Whiskies.

This extraordinarily smooth, sweet, yet rich whisky is forged by a long marriage of spirit in 'double wood', essentially using two types of oak barrels to mature the spirit. The early smooth honey, sweet vanilla and citrus character is derived from the harder American oak, whilst the bold rich flavours of stone fruits, dark toffees and old sherry come from the lush French oak casks. The rich, oily malts create a honey-like mouthfeel and a beautifully long finish.