[68.6%・2 Years 11 Months Old・Bottled in 2017・Official Bottling・Single Cask Release]
Nose:
How marvellous, marshmallow, crisp apples, honey and lemon. The bourbon cask influence is sublime. Sanded wood desk at a carpenter’s workshop.
Palate & Finish:
Vanilla leads the way and brings along generous dose of tropical fruits, syrup poached apples and milk chocolate. Sandalwood with a light floral note that disperses with the hotness and returns with a delicious marmalade note.
The finishing is soft, sugar syrup with a hint of oak and traces of fruits.
Thoughts:
Another delicious Lark aged in 20 litre ex-Makers Mark cask, it’s bottled at 68.6% but it conveys such heavenly flavours without being over the top. The RR 010 really epitomises the magic of Australian whiskies, you mostly won’t know how or when but sometimes a great cask comes along and it’s just so damn satisfying.
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-Nicholas
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