12 Year Old Madeira Cask Finish Single Malt Scotch Whisky (Case of 6)

Wolfburn 12 Year Old Madeira Cask Finish is a 12 year old single malt Scotch whisky bottled at 46% vol, matured in first-fill ex-bourbon casks and finished for a final twelve months in ex-Madeira wine casks. A limited release of 2,982 bottles. Madeira casks do not come onto the market often. When a small parcel appeared last year we took them, and then did the thing that makes a cask finish worth doing at all: we filled them with some of our oldest whisky rather than our youngest. That spirit went into first-fill bourbon casks in 2014 and stayed there for eleven years, maturing slowly in seaside warehouses on the Caithness coast where the temperature barely moves from one season to the next. The Madeira casks took it for its final year. Long enough for the wood to say something. Short enough that it does not shout over the spirit. What you get is Wolfburn with another layer. The orchard fruit and soft richness of the house style still sitting underneath, with dried fruit, sultana, orange marmalade and toffee laid over the top, and a long warming finish with dark caramel at the end of it. Everything that makes Wolfburn distinctive is in this bottle: Caithness water, copper pot stills, seaside warehouse maturation, and twelve years of patience. Distilled, matured and bottled on site in Thurso. The wood travelled. The whisky never did. 2,982 bottles from a single small batch. There will not be another one. If this is your introduction to aged Wolfburn, our 12 Year Old Single Malt, matured in equal parts Oloroso sherry butts and ex-bourbon casks, is the permanent expression to explore next. And if you want the longer story of how these casks reached Thurso, we wrote a story about them. ON THE NOSE Rich and inviting, with notes of ripe orchard fruit, honey, raisins and of course sweet Madeira, complemented by gentle vanilla and warming spice. ON THE PALATE Luscious and rounded, with flavours of caramelised fruit, sultanas, orange marmalade and soft toffee, balanced by vanilla oak and a beautiful touch of light spice. FINISH Long, warming and sweet, with lingering notes of dried fruit, honey and dark caramel. Non chill-filtered / Natural Colour 46% ABV. 70cl