This is NOT a review of the Thy Distillery 2019 5 Years Cask #269, but rather some insight into why I chose this cask to be bottled exclusively for the Dutch market.
Instead of starting its life in a common bourbon cask, it ended it's life in one. For the first 10 years, this Kilkerran was tucked away in a Fino cask, while it spent the final 5 years in a re-fill bourbon casks.
Springbank Week on Words of Whisky ends with a bang! Time for a head-to-head between the two new Springbank 21yo Single Casks for The Netherlands and Belgium.
"What?! Just a couple of days ago this guy whined about how terrible his visit to Edradour was and now he's posting a review of a whisky from that distillery? I'm not sure what to make of this."
How do we know for sure that cask strength whiskies are actually bottled at cask strength? The term cask strength should be pretty self explanatory, but the same can be said for single cask, and obviously we were wrong about that one.