WHISKY WANDERERS – Adventures Off the Beaten Track 2025
For the 2025 Whisky Festival, we launched 35 one-of-a-kind single casks and 1 global batch release representing the 5 regions. These releases emphasize our commitment to innovative, adventurous, and unconventional whiskies. While other distilleries can create unique liquid from their specific region, we possess a unique advantage – the ability to showcase the full range of Scotland’s distilleries. In 2025 we celebrated ‘the path less trodden’ by highlighting liquids you wouldn’t normally expect from certain distilleries or regions.
Spirit Notes
The Panel found this one to be distinctly rich and oily, giving the impression of petrolic young riesling wines, along with Iberico ham, Spanish brandy, orange blossom honey run through porridge and stewed apples drizzled with old PX sherry. Reduction brought impressions of braised pork cheeks, aged oloroso sherry, cocoa powder, cinnamon powder and blood orange. The palate suggested big and chunky things such as speck ham, dark-grained rye bread, roasted walnuts, rosemary-infused olive oil, chilli flakes and spicy orange marmalade. Water brought out slightly more subtle impressions of orange wines, red liquorice, stewed apples once again, raisins, sweet grape must and shilling ales. And we found a single dried fig in the aftertaste!
| Special bottlings | Off The Beaten Track |
|---|---|
| Profile | deep, rich & dried fruits |
| Cask No. | 11.59 |
| Cask(s) | 1st Fill Ex-Oloroso Butt |
| Region | Highland |
| ABV | 58.3% |
| Age | 9 years |
| Distillation Year | 2015 |
| Outturn | 660 bottles |
