North Star The English Whisky Co. 11 Year Old Cask Strength Single Malt English Whisky (700ml)

Here's a real twist on single malt whisky: It's English and it's matured full-term in a Burgundy red wine cask! With an outturn of 300 bottles, North Star say to expect aromas and flavours of smokey Pinot Noir, flinty cherries and raspberries and Sassenach's Eau de Vie. Bottled non chill filtered at 49.8% Alc./Vol.

Established in 2006, the English Whisky Co. produce both unpeated and peated whiskies, in conjunction with a rolling program of cask trials that includes x-rum and sherry casks. Pinning down a ‘house style’ is difficult. The company is the most prolific producer of English malt whisky, though by Scotch standards, output is miniscule. Some bottlings are harder to find than others. Virtually all of them have received rave reviews from the likes of Jim Murray. Early bottlings we tasted back in 2011 were precocious.