Why is a Single Cask Special?
(the short answer) A single cask is the purest, most unique expression of whiskey from a distillery. Scroll down for more info.
The Long Answer
Commercially-produced whiskeys from large brands which you will be familiar with often use “vatting” as a means of ensuring their whiskey bottlings always taste the exact same. This is essentially a “recipe” of combining various casks to give an identical flavour profile to each bottling. This gives the brand consistency and it certainly has its place in whiskey as the regular customer knows what to expect from Brand X when they open one of their bottles.
Why doesn’t each cask just taste the same?
* Wood
This is because wood is an organic material and the 26 staves of white oak wood that make up a typical ex-bourbon cask all have various different grain patterns. You’ll have noticed the dark versus light grain in a piece of wood right?
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You will have noticed that pine wood is mainly white with occasional slivers of brown. Oak is overall more brown with tiny threads of white throughout. The different shades of wood contain different amounts of naturally-occuring organic compounds. These compounds interact with the whiskey spirit as it matures in the cask. High quality, fresh, first-fill white oak casks give the best results.
* Environment
Various environmental influences such as temperature, pressure and humidity all combine to create a unique “micro climate” in each cask. These variations all influence how the end whiskey interacts with the wood compounds and its environment, directly affecting how it develops and tastes. Two identical casks filled one after the other can have slight differences in flavour upon final maturation. If you start off with high quality whiskey spirit and mature it carefully in high quality fresh wood, you’ll have a very unique premium whiskey with its own individual flavour personality, just like its owner!
* Protecting the flavour
This is why single casks of whiskey are considered the purest expression of a distillery and are so highly desired, particularly when bottled at a higher strength of 46% ABV or more. An ABV of 46% means the whiskey can be bottled without chill filtration. At 46% ABV, the tiny particles of naturally-occurring flavour compounds in the whiskey remain soluble. If you water the whiskey down to say 40% and place the bottle in a cold environment, those compounds will form structures which catch the light and make the whiskey look hazy or cloudy. Commercial brands water the ABV down to 40% but use chill filtering so the whiskey still looks nice and clear and it also leaves the distillery with more whiskey. However, chill filtering also strips away some of the natural flavour of the whiskey. We don’t chill filter your whiskey. It retains all that flavour that the Master Distiller and his team worked hard to create.
Something Special
There is something incredibly special in owning your own cask of premium whiskey, knowing this whiskey has been crafted to the highest standards and it is slowly evolving, developing and maturing over time. Last week’s latest fad has come and gone, but your whiskey still endures. Holding your bottles of your own whiskey in your hand with your name on them is something you can treasure forever and of course it is a very personal and special gift to give to those deserving of it!
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