Master of Malt / Maverick Drinks has a new sub-brand called Darkness! It’s a range of sherry finished whiskies, “sherry monsters” if you like.
To get this dark sherry profile, the whiskies are finished for three months in 50-litre Octave casks.
Some of them, like the Ardbeg 21yo PX or the Macallan 15yo PX , are actually not very dark at all, but they’re said to have taken over the typical sherry profile nonetheless. Of course it depends on the type of maturation it received before the finishing period.
We’ll start with the darkest of all, a ...
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