Caol Ila 9-year-old Sherry Cask (D.2010, B.2020) Hepburn's Choice/ 46%/ 0.7l

Hepburn's Choice is a line of whiskies from the Hunter Laing & Company portfolio, with editions signed by Langside Distillers, its subsidiary.

The series is a nod to William Hepburn, the Laing brothers' maternal grandfather, a diplomat and whisky connoisseur. In September 2020, Hunter Laing changed the graphic design of the series, reserving a specific color for the region from which the release comes. The Caol Ila presented here, distilled in 2010, spent over 9 years in a sherry butt cask, and was bottled in 2020 in an edition of 797 bottles. Hepburn's Choice editions are most often from single casks and bottled at 46% abv, without chill filtration and with a natural color.

Nose: peat smoke and sherry, sea breeze, honey, raisins, apples, damp hay, tobacco, notes of leather and burnt rubber.

Taste : smokey and fruity, plums, cranberries with meat, lemon peel, caramel, black pepper, licorice, traces of leather and oak.

Finish : medium long, with notes of peat smoke, red berries, caramel, pepper, tobacco and oak.