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 nose evoked a beach barbecue, serving grilled pineapple, duck, venison and seared tuna with a soy glaze. The palate’s massive flavours included coal tar, ginger beer, smoked prunes, brine and chimney scrapings – but also pain aux raisins, heather honey and panettone bread and butter pudding. The reduced nose suggested dandelion and burdock, raisins macerated in birch tar liqueur, aubergine fritters and seaweed on lobster. The palate had crab and wakame salad with lemon thyme dressing, then black pepper and eucalyptus to finish. At nine years of age, we combined two ex-bourbon hogsheads from the same distillery into this cask for further maturation.
| Special bottlings | Off The Beaten Track |
|---|---|
| Profile | peated |
| Cask No. | 53.491 |
| Cask(s) | 1st Fill Ex-PX European Oak Butt |
| Region | Islay |
| ABV | 58.9% |
| Age | 12 years |
| Distillation Year | 2012 |
| Outturn | 473 bottles |
