NOSE: Light brown sugar, caramel, vanilla, honey, very ripe topical fruit (pineapple and banana?) ginger biscuits, oak

TASTE: Sugar cane, honeyed, vanilla caramel, biscuity, spiced warming oak

FINISH: Very soft tannins, smooth, the biscuity charred oak and vanilla caramel linger

Blackadder International was established 1995 by Robin Tucek who, together with daughter Hannah and son Michael run the family business

Robin Tucek is also co-auther with John Lamond of The Malt Whisky File – one of the most respected books about malt whisky

The Blackadder Raw Cask whiskies are complete cask whiskies bottled containing cask sediment.

DISTILLERY STORY

Blackadder’s philosophy is very simple – they believe that the Cask is King. Sixty to seventy percent of the flavours in a whisky are taken up slowly from the cask as the spirit lies maturing in the warehouse. The action of changing temperature draws the spirit in and out of the cask. Every cask is unique, with its own fingerprint. This is why they bottle most of their whiskies from single casks. They don’t believe in chilling or otherwise heavily filtering their whiskies, and they never, repeat never, add caramel colouring and flavouring to their spirits. They have always believed the personalities of their whiskies are colourful enough.
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