South Star Speyside 2011-2021 | 10 Year OldSpeyside Single Malt WhiskyBottled By South Star Spirits 70cl 48% The launch of South Star Spirits is one of the first landmark moments in whisky for 2022. South Star is a sister company to director Iain Croucher's North Star Spirits, and was announced alongside the plans for the new Dal Riata distillery to be built in Campbeltown. The first batch of South Star Spirits Speyside 2011 is a single malt from an unnamed distillery, assembled from a small

gently smoky and fresh with surprising length and complexity for standard bottlings

This version is fully matured in sherry casks and contains a significant proportion of older stock

which has the extra advantage of having spent a six-month finishing period in one of their special Octaves - mini sherry casks re-coopered from large sherry butts - before bottling in 2021 as a 10-year-old at its natural cask strength of 54

Expect wax

like so many of the older Knockando bottlings

Cask Number 3 Bottle Size 70cl ABV 59

Distilled Year 1994 Bottling Year 2016

with notes of mint and chocolate

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Should be another Classic Speysider from our friends at BenRiach Distillery

Sweet barbeque - crispy bacon on pancakes doused with maple syrup

The three cask types in question are European and American sherry-seasoned oak casks