Spirit of Yorkshire distilleryreleases unique orange wine barrique whisky
Distillers at Yorkshire's first single malt whisky distillery have revealed details of their latest bottling.
Hunmanby, North Yorkshire based Spirit of Yorkshire Distillery has announced the launch of a limited editionFiley Bay Orange Wine Barrique.
Unusually bottled at a maturation strength of 46.2%, the seven-year-old whisky is characterised as softand fruity with flavours of orange cake, honeycomb, ripe citrus and stone fruits. The whisky was matured in ex-Bourbon casks for three years and three months before being re-racked into orange wine casks for a further three years and 10 months.
Spirit of Yorkshire whisky director Joe Clark said: "Over the last few years, deep within our warehouse, four ex-orange wine barriques have been happily maturing for this deliciously different special release. But this isn't the skin-contact orange wine you'd expect to find on the list of your local artisan wine bar.
"Vino Naranja del Condado de Huelva" is exclusively made with Protected Designation of Origin "Condado de Huelva". This particular orange wine is made in a similar way to other fortified wines. However, the key difference is that the grape spirit used to ‘fortify' the base wine has been aromatised with orange peel.
"The natural reduction of strength over many years in the orange wine casks is a big part of what makes this whisky so smooth and delicious. Unlike the powerful cask-strength whisky, these casks were filled with mature whisky at a reduced strength of 50% abv in March 2021. In the intervening years the abv has slowly slipped away as the angels took their share. In this very rare example, the strength in the bottle of 46.2% is the strength that the whisky reached in the cask all on its own with no final reduction before bottling. It's a process that requires constant checking of the casks to make sure the whisky is bottled at precisely the right time."
Limited to just 1,100 bottles, Filey Bay Orange Wine Barrique costs £85 and is available online at spiritofyorkshire.com, from the distillery shop and from specialist retailers nationwide.
Spirit of Yorkshire is a true field-to-bottle distillery and one of only a handful of distilleries worldwide that use 100% homegrown barley to produce its single malt whisky.
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Photograph caption:Spirit of Yorkshire marketing director Jenni Ashwood with Joe Clark and the rare Filey Bay Orange Wine Barrique whisky Jenni Ashwood and Joe Clark
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