Old Orkney 21 Year Old Decadent Drinks Blended Malt V99 ex-Bodega Sherry Butt V03 Refill Hogshead (2024) 70cl

Old Orkney 21 Year Old Decadent Drinks Blended Malt V99 ex-Bodega Sherry Butt V03 Refill Hogshead (2024) 70cl

1 of 300 bottles made

A multi vintage release of Old Orkney from Decadent Drinks. Since reviving the historic brand from the Orkney Isles, Decadent Drinks have crafted a handful of excellent releases from an undisclosed Orcadian producer (of which there are only two). The third bottling combines a 2003 refill hogshead with a 1999 first fill ex-bodega sherry butt and is delicious sherried, coastal, gently peated.

TASTING NOTES

Nose: Earthy, coastal and drying, like dunnage must and peat fire embers. Green walnuts, heather ales and camphor with waxes, fir wood and hessian cloth. Wonderful and deeply evocative.

Palate: Hugely leathery, salty, gamey and peppery sherry. Lots of game meats, tar, salted liquorice, putty, dried herbs and sooty peat smoke. Mouth-filling and immensely characterful.

Finish: Long, back on big salty, umami and drying notes of nori, soy sauce, peat smoke, camphor, green walnuts and miso.

52.9% ABV

70cl