Triple Distilled Single Malt Palo Cortado Cask

235 litres | Distilled 22.03.2021 | Bond Code CW000826

About Our Palo Cortado Casks

These 235 litre casks have been cut down from larger casks that were used to mature high-quality Palo Cortado Sherry. Each cask has held sherry for a long period of time, at least 15 years. They have a lot more activity within the wood than standard casks, making them suitable for accelerated ageing and early bottling. Similar to some of our own small barrels that we have used for our award-winning Celtic Cask series we are confident that customers will be happy and rewarded with some excellent whiskey once bottled.

Palo Cortado is the rarest variety of sherry . It is initially aged under flor with the expectation to become a fino or amontillado, but the cask inexplicably loses its veil of flor and begins to age oxidatively as an oloroso. The wine develops some of the richness of oloroso, whilst retaining some of the crispness of amontillado.

Great Northern Distillery source Irish barley which is malted in Ireland. The grains are wet milled, breaking open the grains to form a grist. Mashing is when this grist is mixed with hot water in the lauter tun which then turns the starch into a sugary liquid called wort. The wort is then converted into a beer-like liquid once yeast is added. The yeast converts the sugar into alcohol and it's now called wash. The wash is then double distilled in Great Northern’s giant copper pot stills. The spirit is put into cask at 63% abv and on this occasion will be casked in a first fill American Bourbon barrel.