Filey Bay Sherry Moscatel, Oloroso & PX Cask Reserve Special Release #4 Yorkshire Single Malt Whisky (2023) 70cl

Filey Bay Sherry Moscatel, Oloroso & PX Cask Reserve Special Release #4 Yorkshire Single Malt Whisky (2023) 70cl

A marriage of three sherry casks

Filey Bay have released its fourth limited-edition annual Autumn/Winter expression in the Sherry Cask Reserve series to showcase classic sherry maturation and to create a most delicious and delightful winter warmer. Whisky Director Joe Clark has orchestrated a complex marriage of three cask types; ex-PX, ex Moscatel, and ex-Oloroso to each contribute their own distinctive notes creating a harmony of flavours in this new bottling.

The enticing expression sings of floral aromatics (from the Moscatel casks) alongside nutty complexity (from the Oloroso cask) and sublime rich sweetness from the PX casks. The nose is full of cranberry, sticky toffee pudding, apple, cinnamon and cola sweets dancing into layers of dark chocolate, cherries, treacle, pecan, plum sponge and woody spice and finishing in a decidedly festive-like state with a mouthfeel of rich and luxurious Christmas cake. Limited to just 2000 bottles worldwide, you will need to be quick off the mark to get hold of one.

The Spirit of Yorkshire Distillery can be found in the village of Hunmanby just a few miles from Filey Bay on the Yorkshire coast. It’s the county’s first ever Single Malt Whisky producer and they do things properly from grain to glass but definitely their own way. But they did get a little help from the late great Dr Jim Swan a celebrated whisky maker who was described as “the Einstein of whisky” and who was instrumental in setting up a raft of other great distilleries including Nc’nean Cotswolds Kavalan Penderyn Kilchoman Victoria Caledonian and Milk & Honey. He helped them ensure that they were making something unique that reflected the local area not just a carbon copy of Scotch. The barley is grown in Hunmanby on the family farm so you can’t get much more local and hands on than that. The water is drawn through chalk from deep beneath the Yorkshire Wolds. One of the only things they bring in from outside the county is the oak for which they source the finest barrels from around the world. The bottles are embossed with a gannet a fearless bird that has flourished in this part of Yorkshire. We think that’s kind of fitting because it also perfectly describes the way we hungrily gobble down each new Filey Bay outturn.

The Fourth Sherry Cask release is a gentle marriage of two distillate styles.

Matured in first fill ex-px, ex-moscatel and ex-Oloroso sherry casks. Incredibly rare and distinctly special.

Tasting Notes:

Rich and complex. With flavours of dried fruits, black treacle, cranberry, cocoa and cola sweets.

46% ABV

70cl