Cask No. 24.139
Beauty beyond skin deep
$2,395
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Flavour Profile:Old & Dignified
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Age:30 years
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Region:Speyside, Spey
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Cask:Refill Sherry butt
Notes
The Vaults Collection
Cask No. 24.139
Beauty beyond skin deep
Speyside, Spey
It quivers in golden, glistening stillness to begin. But it climbs up the glass. Slow and sure. Breakfast is served! Maple bacon, pancake batter, cranberry gravy, chocolate chip cookie dough in mid-bake. Some musty oranges, tempered by uber-ripe cantaloupe melon. We’re a long way from the days of old for this distillery, but we’re also closer to its true, stodgy, thick and loveable heart. Water gives us golden sultanas, fruit load, seed breads and toasty, buttery, comforting warmth. A glow of golden syrup comes drizzling from on high. In the mouth it rolls in like a wave of sweetened squirty cream. Syrups, dark fruit extracts, brown sugar caramelising in a pan with butter. Warm brioche, croissants freshly liberated from a hot oven, hazelnut chocolate spread, earthy, subtle wood spices and little teaspoons of treacle. Water lifts up the earth, the forest freshness, the dusty rafters and the tobacco pouches. It’s all rather emotional in the end. What was, what is and what’s been lost...
Cask: Refill Sherry butt
Age: 30 years
Date distilled: May 1989
Alcohol: 46.9%
USA allocation: 148 bottles
About Cask 24.139 Beauty beyond skin deep:
This profound malt represents a journey back in time to a bygone era of distilling that will reward its recipient with literally ‘history in a glass’. Remarkably aged for thirty years in a Sherry butt, Cask 24.139 is nothing short of a monumental Speyside expression illuminating a whisky lover’s top shelf.
About The Vaults Collection:
The Vaults Collection is a selection of the finest and rarest single cask, single malt whisky, set aside from The Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s most remarkable stocks over the years. They have been released from the depths of our treasure trove of casks, after decades of slow maturation and careful nurturing. The Vaults Collection represents the whisky lover’s dream: A chance to journey back into whisky history, including the opportunity to experience styles or distilleries that no longer exist, like Cask 24.139 Beauty beyond skin deep. The Collection takes its name from the Society’s historical home at The Vaults in Leith, Scotland’s oldest commercial building in continuous use whose connection with the drinks world dates back to the 12th century. Each bottle has a specially designed label and is offered in a beautiful wooden box.
