Batch 5 "Yoko"
Limited to 128 bottles
Fleurieu Distillery Cask #30 "Yoko"
ex-Apera Cask
Distilled: August 2015
Bottled: July 2022
52.6% ABV
CRAIG'S TASTING NOTES
COLOUR: mid amber
NOSE: starts a little subdued and austere; medium dry sherry, autumn leaves, dried sultanas and a hint of raisins. Fruit leather. Fruit and nut mix. The spirit is subtle.
PALATE: spirit more forward with cherry, sherry and woody herbs (menthol/thyme/mint) dried fruit, drying tannins.
FINISH: sherry notes abound, drying wood, roasted nuts, almond skins some syrupy reduction.
PAUL'S TASTING NOTES
NOSE: Damp forest floor overlying a base of dried mixed fruits dominated by orange peel and raisins. Slightly herby with a touch of umami – buttered button mushroom. Ambrosial with a sprinkling of demerara sugar sweetness.
PALATE: Herbaceous, minty and spicy with background dried fruit mix.
FINISH: Buttery, fruit lollies, cherry drops, lingering mint.
VIANO'S TASTING NOTES
NOSE: sherry, damp leaf litter, sultanas, vino cotto,
PALATE: Black cherry, fruit mince, hint of balsamic
FINISH: sharp finish of wood tannins early on, with walnuts, sichuan pepper and lingering balsamic sweetness at the end.
INDEPENDENT TASTING NOTES (ANGUS SMITH)
NOSE: Sultanas and red wine reduction with perhaps a smidge of aromatic sun dried tomato. Also opens up with moderate pencil shavings before a slightly musty crushed leaf, damp earth, vegetal coffee and green capsicum pyrazine twist appears.
PALATE: More dried fruit and vinous sweetness with some mushroom umami/rancio characteristics adding to the earthy, mulchy and vegetal pyrazine tones. Sweet and floral honeys through the finish with some clove and warm sawdust on retronasal.