Wire Works White Peak Distillery Single American Oak STR Lightly Peated Cask #18-124 English Single Malt Whisky (2023) 70cl
1 of 312 bottles produced from a single STR Cask
This is only the second single cask (full strength) bottling of Wire Works Whisky since their spirit started running off the stills in 2018. They are all another year older (maybe wiser) and have had more time to get to know their cask inventory, and the chosen one for this exclusive bottling is Cask # 18-124.
This was sold by ballot in 2023.
An American oak STR cask filled in 2018 with our house-style lightly-peated spirit, matured since in our warehouse on the banks of the River Derwent in Derbyshire.
TASTING NOTES
This unique single cask English whisky features dark toffee and candied ginger and sultanas on the nose, smoky cereal, white pepper and liquorice on the palate, and apple pie, fizzy sweets, leather and a wisp of smoke on the finish.
About Wire Works (White Peak Distillery)
Wire Works Whisky is underpinned by our unique heritage and made with a focus on flavour and proud Derbyshire provenance. The First Release left the Distillery in February 2022, and since then, we’ve been grateful to receive a great response, with awards for several Wire Works Whisky releases.
Wire Works Whisky flavour is built upon their considered approach to whisky-making, resulting in a complex, well-balanced and lightly-peated spirit. The palate and nose deliver fruit forward notes, bonfire toffee and sweet vanilla, with a rich mouth feel and long finish.
Having never before been made in Derbyshire, they set out to develop their own unique flavour and provenance in whisky-making. This hasn’t meant throwing out the traditions that have stood the test of time but we’ve closely considered every stage of whisky-making to put down their own marker. Their home, at a 19th century former Wire Works, has its own rich heritage of innovation and making things the proper way. This strong sense of place and pursuit of flavour has informed their choices; using English (and Derbyshire) barley, developing a special blend of live yeast with links to Derbyshire’s brewing heritage, long fermentations, copper pot stills hand-built to their designs that add the final magic to their spirit.
Wood is important (although they think putting their soul into what goes into the cask is more important) and they’ve selected their casks from family-owned businesses where relationships matter.
All Wire Works Whisky is distilled and matured on site. A unique environment and a full life-cycle of Derbyshire provenance.
62.8% ABV
70cl
