Matured for six years and six months in first-fill French Oak Apera casks from the Barossa Valley, we are proud to have created Chief’s Son's oldest whisky ever. Having established a relationship with the distillery, we were given exclusive access to their test bed archives and, in a first for them, worked together to select and marry a number of small format casks of the same age. Bottle Size: 500ml ABV: 54.25% ABV Outturn: 105 bottles Distillery Tasting Notes Nose: Christmas pudding; sweet, complex pipe tobacco; Tahitian vanilla; soft jasmine; suede; old leather; hints of green apple; camphor, French tea and cacao Palate: Dark chocolate; softly spiced caramel; clementine; macadamia; soft coffee crema; sweet marmalade; boiled lollies and dark malt Finish: A long silken caramel finish with layers of oak; leather; spice; stewed apricots; and hints of chocolate. Our Tasting Notes Nose: Cookie dough fudge; roasted macadamias; cloves; and antique leather armoire Palate: Blackberry jam; cappuccino, burnt sultanas; and cigar tobacco Finish: Sweet demerara sugar; leather and oak; just a hint of spearmint before ending with spicy cinnamon butter
