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The Founders’ Casks Expression 1 is finally here. The first of 6 expression single malt whiskies that demonstrate to the whisky loving community the types of whiskies that we are aiming to craft at our new distillery in Longyan, Fujian Province, China.
If you’ve missed the previous three articles, telling you about our journey to this point and what it actually took for us to be able to release The Founders’ Casks Expression 1 then you can catch up with the links below.
CLICK HERE to read part one.
CLICK HERE to read part two.
CLICK HERE to read the final part
The series consists of 6 bottlings, all released at cask strength and each expressing an individual aspect of our approach to whisky maturation and cask finishes. They are all 700ml bottles
They include virgin oak, ex-bourbon cask, Madeira cask, port casks and sherry casks in various combinations to create what we believe to be some very interesting whiskies.
Expression 1 of the Founders’ Casks is initially matured in virgin American oak first fill ex-bourbon casks from the USA. After its initial ageing of almost 5 years the whisky is then finished in carefully hand-picked Madeira wine casks.
Bottled at cask strength (53.4% ABV) and non-chill filtered for purity of flavour, this whisky derives its unique palate from thick and velvety Portuguese wine.
We drew samples of this The Founders’ Casks Expression 1 and through a panel of 12 whisky enthusiasts, we created these collective tastings notes.
The nose is fruity, laced with raisins and sultanas on a bed of vanilla and cream fudge. A final hint of citrus peels makes way for a smooth and honey-rich palate, complete with green apples, peaches and a viscous underflow of caramel, cream and malted milk biscuits. The finish is light and quick – a tropical flourish that gives way to dried stone fruits.
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9RD Rocks Stars shouldn’t need any introduction. You’d have to have had your head in the sand to not be aware of what Team Delta Farce have been working on the for last few months. The ultimate statement in whisky glassware.
A set of 4 unique, hand cut, hand polished whisky glasses. Each of the 4 glasses have one of the Nine Rivers Distillery buildings lasers into the glass, using 3D sub surface laser engraving.
The glasses are presented on a piece of locally cut and polished granite. By local we mean a 10 minute drive down the road from our site.
A bit of kudos to our special ops team of creative ninjas for putting this together, team Delta Farce.
The 4 whisky glasses and the granite slab, weigh in at a Rocks Stars Heavy Weight Contender mass of 4.4 kilograms.
For those of you thinking that the granite slab is most of that mass, you’re not wrong. Here’s the weight of the 4 glasses without the slab.
A more modest 2.1 kilograms for the 4 glasses, giving an individual glass weight of just over half a kilogram.
There will only be 250 sets made of the 9RD Rocks Stars.
Please note that the 9RD Rocks Stars will be shipping in the third week of September 2022.