Exotic Cargo Batch 2 - SMWS

One of only 925 bottles available of this fine blended malt.
Named - Exotic Cargo Batch 2.
Cask type - First Fill Spanish Oak Ex-Sherry Hogshead.

Distilled June 2006.
Aged for 11 years.

A sumptuous nose! Alive with brandy butter, botrytis and sultana compote. A banana sprinkled with brown sugar and gleefully blowtorched followed by suggestions of trail mix, malt loaf and touches of mint tea. Some lozenges and eucalyptus oil in the background as well. Water brings earth after rainfall, bracken and still-warm coal hearths. The arrival on the palate is dense and chocolatey with notes of various cured meats, wet earth, sorrel, dried herbs, turmeric and pears baked in cognac. There is a beautiful and curiously old-school aspect to the sherry. Water lifts the dark fruits and brings out wintry, orange peel and mulling spice notes.

From SMWS - The Scotch Malt Whisky Society.