A limited-edition single malt from Aberfeldy, this 15-year-old Highland whisky was finished in Cabernet Sauvignon wine casks from California's Napa Valley before being bottled as part of the Red Wine Cask Collection. The palate is bursting with sweet raspberry jam and Parma violet notes, followed by cinnamon, honey, sweet malt and rich coffee beans that linger in the finish.
Cabernet Sauvignon reigns supreme over this rugged terroir, ripening fully in the California sunshine to produce big, bold and fruity flavours as well as notes of spice from ageing in oak.
Color: Auburn
Nose: Like any good highland single malt, theres an initial body of malted cereal. With a little exploration of the smell, I can find the influence of the cabernet sauvignon in the notes of rich, ripe grapes. As the combination mixes and settles, I get a feeling of jammy raspberry, like a good cabernet.
Palate: The grapes play strongly on the taste. It has the vinous quality that Id recognize in a sherry finish, but with a richer and spicier quality. The taste evolves into notes of gingerbread and honey as the scotch asserts itself against the cabernet sauvignon finish. It finishes with a strong taste of malted barley and honey, leaving me with the strongest sense of a single malt scotch.
The Cabernet Sauvignon wine casks from the Napa Valley bestow berries and spice, imparting a refined blush on Aberfeldy's honeyed malt in this latest release from the Red Wine Cask Collection.
Mashbill: 100% Malted barley
