Dear friends and followers alike! When working the Beer & Whisky-festival in Gothenburg in late mars I ran into Pär Caldenby, the distillery manager/master distiller of swedish west coast distillery Smögen . To my great joy he was very keen on sharing a sample of the first release in his second series on the influence of sherry cask maturation, rightfully named Sherry Project 2:1.
This first release in this new series consists of a vatting of 18 so called Octaves (50 litre casks) that previously were used to mature (oloroso) sherry. The Octaves are made from american white oak and...
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