Day 7!! The weekend is here and you got yourself a tasty dram of whisky. Since we are just barely into the calendar why not some thing from a young distillery. Lets see how they stack up against the big names.
Story
The Cotswolds Distillery was established in 2014, and is one of only six distilleries producing English whisky.
Initial development of the distillery was assisted by Harry Cockburn (a Master Distiller and former Production Director at Bowmore distillery) and Dr. Jim Swan (an expert in cask maturation whose previous projects include work with Penderyn in Wales, Kavalan in Taiwan and The Milk & Honey Distillery in Israel). Production began on 5 September 2014, with the first cask of single malt whisky filled on 22 September 2014. The first release of whisky, when a selection of casks have reached the three-year minimum age, will take place in October 2017 and will consist of 5000 bottles.
In January 2016, the Distillery opened a crowd funding initiative on CrowdBnk with the aim of raising £500,500 for expansion of the business. The investment window closed with the iniative having raised £1,001,000 from 124 investors in seven weeks.
Tasting Notes
Nose: popcorn, grassy, lavendar, short bread, apples, flowers, maple, almond cake
Taste: Corn, soggy hay bail, pepper, fresh cream, vanilla, nutmeg, cookies, buter in oil
Finish: creamy radish, wood chips, four day old sourdough from your first love left in the rain, something vegetal,
Purchase Links
Can be purchased here from BC Liquor Stores