InchDairnie
takes a meticulous approach to wine cask
selection.
Just a quick photo story to keep you
up to date with what the folks at the
InchDairnie distillery in Fife are up to
and perhaps a hint about one of the styles of
whisky we may see from the
Fife distillery in the future.
You may recall that at the end of last
year the distillery revealed that their
first release will be a groundbreaking
Scotch Rye whisky named
Ryelaw which will be matured in new American
oak casks, with the combination of the
malted rye and fresh wood designed to
create a distinctive take on the full
spicy flavour, which rye whisky is
renowned for.
Skylaw only accounts for around 20% of
the distillery's 2 million litre output
capacity each year, they also produce
another main style of new make spirit
which makes up 80% of its annual
production, a new make spirit named
Strathhenry, which is both peated and
unpeated in style and will supply the
company's partner Macduff International
and be used in their blends such as
Islay Mist and Lauder's.
As you know the cask a whisky matures
in plays a very important part in how
the final whisky turns out, and it seems
the folks at the new InchDairnie
Distillery in Fife which went into
production in May 2016 are taking cask
selection very seriously.
Earlier this week the InchDairnie
Distillery received a visit from
Spanish cooperage Toneleria J.L.
Rodriguez, the purpose of the visit was
to inspect the quality of their
Andalusian wine casks that were recently
imported to the distillery from southern
Spain.
This follows a visit from
InchDairnie Managing Director Ian Palmer
to the cooperage earlier this year to
ensure the casks are fit for the
distillery’s meticulous approach to
making whisky.
Father and son coopers José Luis
Rodriguez and Juan Manuel Rodriguez
along with their export manager Henk
Meijer travelled to Fife to meet Ian
Palmer and agree plans for the next five
years of cask production and seasoning.
They tell me that the casks will be used
to mature the summer, autumn and winter
InchDairnie Single Malt Whiskies.
It isn't clear at this stage if any of
InchDairnie's Scotch Rye, Ryelaw, will
find its way into these Spanish Andalusian wine
casks which could make for a rather
interesting whisky or if it will only be InchDairnie
single malt that will mature in these
casks but the distilleries meticulous
approach to cask selection and quality
certainly bodes well for what is to come
in the future. |