Linkwood 2010 12 Year Old, Finn Thomson Cask #309279

He decided to bottle this particular cask after trying it with his good friend Henry who runs the incredible Villeneuve Wines in Peebles. When first poured, the high abv of the whisky is quite apparent and although there are some lovely sweet notes it feels as if there is more to discover. But then they let this whisky sit in the glass for 20 minutes and came back to it again. This time the heat of the alcohol had disappeared and they were left with a dram bursting with milk chocolate sweetness and vanilla.

So much of what makes whisky so special is about the ability of time to alter flavour. Of course, when one thinks of the relationship between time and flavour in whisky, the mind naturally goes to the many years in which the liquid will spend in the oak casks that give so much direction to the final taste. However, when selecting this cask for bottling, the eureka moment came not as a result of the time spent in the cask but instead time spent in the glass.

This is a whisky to be patient with and is undoubtedly worth the wait.

Distilled: 16/07/2010
Bottled: 01/11/2022
Cask: First Fill Bourbon
One of only 300 bottles from a single cask