English Rye 8 Year Old
English Rye 8 Year Old
REGION: England
STYLE: English Rye Whisky
ABV: 45.8%
AGE: 8 Years
RRP: £44.95
Oh yes, English whisky is a thing… we’ve only been bottling the stuff for over ten years!
Here is our English whisky so full of character you can eat it on toast.
This is a bold and expressive English rye with a hint of Islay peat, and an 8 year old age statement. The backbone of this whisky is distilled from a high-rye mash bill and aged for eight years in toasted French oak casks, to which we’ve blended some English single malt that has spent some time in an ex-Islay cask.
Non chill-filtered, and natural cask matured colour
NOSE
Distinct and charming, not unlike our Boutique-y Dave! Fruit and spice, marzipan, vanilla, chocolate, and black peppercorns all make themselves known.
TASTE
Sweet and spicy rye bread, raisin fudge, honey, and berries. A hint of smoke in an overall balanced mouthful of pepper, coffee, and honeyed sweetness.
ABOUT THE LABEL
Our label features the English Longhorn Cattle, and an ancient, and magnificent breed that is said to originate in northern England. They have long curved horns that generally sweep down to the nose as they age. This youngster’s horns are still growing out straight at the moment, and if there was a flag on the end of each ear, it could be seen as semaphore, for R.
R for rye, perhaps? Shockingly bad punnage…
The livery for in English mustard yellow, and bright red, Coleman’s Mustardesque perhaps? (other English mustards are available).
