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Ballechin SFTC Madeira Cask
- Age
- No age statement
- ABV
- 58.5%
Tasting
How it drinks
- Sight
- Burnished copper-gold with rose tints; Madeira cask gives distinctive warm copper hue to peated spirit
- Nose
- Smoked tropical fruit — campfire smoke, dried apricot, mango, honey, Madeira wine sweetness. Unusual and beguiling combination. Peat and Madeira create something exotic
- Palate
- Full-bodied. Smoked apricot, tropical fruit, honey, butterscotch, intense peat smoke. Madeira sweetness and peat power create extraordinary tension. Neither dominates — they dance together. Unique in whisky world
- Finish
- Long finish. Peat smoke and Madeira sweetness alternate in waves. Smoked fruit, butterscotch, ash linger. Complex and rewarding
Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.
Maturation
The wood it came through
- First-fill Madeira hogshead — straight from the cask
- single cask
- heavily peated
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