Single Malt 1st Fill Oloroso Hogshead Golden Promise Barley 'Full Cask' No 228
⏳ Drikkevindue
As a premium single malt whisky, it is bottled ready to drink and will remain in peak condition indefinitely when stored properly.
🍽️ Mad & Vin-match
Dark chocolate, blue cheese, roasted venison
✨ Tekniske specifikationer
Holyrood Distillery's 'Full Cask' series represents a bold renaissance of Edinburgh's distilling heritage, which had lain dormant for nearly a century before the distillery's founding. This release highlights the use of Golden Promise barley—a legendary, low-yielding heritage variety that dominated the Scotch whisky industry in the mid-20th century, prized for its rich, oily, and robust sweet malt character. Distilled in Holyrood's bespoke stills, the spirit is matured entirely in a first-fill Oloroso sherry hogshead. This intense maturation imparts deep notes of dried dark fruits, toasted nuts, baking spices, and a luxurious, resinous oak complexity, marrying the historic Lowland style with bold, experimental craft.
🍾 Om vinhuset / producenten
Holyrood Distillery blev grundlagt i 2019 af Rob og Kelly Carpenter i samarbejde med den tidligere Macallan-masterdistiller David Robertson. Etableringen markerede en historisk milepæl, da produktionen af single malt whisky dermed vendte tilbage til det centrale Edinburgh efter næsten et århundredes fravær. Destilleriet har til huse i en ombygget jernbanebygning fra 1830'erne, klos op ad Holyrood Park i det skotske Lowlands, og drives ud fra en progressiv filosofi, hvor smagen altid er i absolut centrum. Holyrood udfordrer de traditionelle rammer gennem dybdegående eksperimenter med historiske og særlige bygsorter som Golden Promise, alsidige gærtyper og nøje skræddersyede fadlagringer. Ud over at skabe nuancerede og komplekse single malt-whiskyer er det innovative mikrodestilleri også anerkendt for sine karakterfulde, håndværksmæssige gin, rom og botaniske spiritusser.