Made by the Spirit of Yorkshire Distillery, Filey Bay is the primary single malt whisky made in, “and of,” Yorkshire, England. The distillery says this as a result of it’s a real “discipline to bottle” operation, made with native malt, pot distilled, and aged on web site. Filey Bay has a reasonably excessive ending operation, with over a half dozen completely different completed whiskies presently in the marketplace, along with its unfinished “Flagship” providing. We acquired the Flagship plus a pair of completed whiskies — one a single cask providing — for overview. Let’s attempt them.
All are 700ml.
Filey Bay Yorkshire Single Malt Whisky Flagship – Matured in bourbon casks. Recent and fruity, it is a vibrant and sunny whisky with a nostril of baked apples, brown butter, and a pinch of baking spice. With a number of vanilla exhibiting, it’s instantly inviting. The palate retains the concentrate on all the above flavors, a bit sweeter and providing a barely stronger spice component, a bit clearer charred wooden notice, and a refined winey notice — crimson fruit — on the end. All of it really works completely collectively, making for a lush, candy, and effusive approach to begin an evening of English whisky. 92 proof. A- / $62
Filey Bay Yorkshire Single Malt Whisky STR End Batch #2 – More and more well-known, STR stands for “shaved, toasted, re-charred” barrels. This whisky takes the flagship then finishes it in STR crimson wine casks (supply unknown, however certainly not from Yorkshire). No age info is offered for any of this. A bit extra brooding on the nostril than the Flagship, and regardless of a tiny 2% kick in abv, it’s clearly hotter. On each nostril and palate there’s extra wooden, extra cereal, and extra tannin, maybe as a result of wine affect, in lieu of the extra anticipated fruity bump. The end sees notes of cherry and almonds, and loads of barrel char lingering on the again finish. A bit brooding, significantly compared to the Flagship. 96 proof. B+ / $70
Filey Bay Yorkshire Single Malt Whisky Fino Single Cask #784 – It is a U.S. unique, a single cask, full proof launch, completed in a Fino sherry cask. Surprisingly darkish in colour. Distinct Fino sherry notice on the nostril: nutty, winey, oxidized, and very scorching. The palate’s a scorcher that tastes precisely like sherry, however at 61% abv — think about all that toasty oxidized wine character however filtered by means of ethanol. It’s seemingly a polarizing expertise, and at full proof it’s a bit a lot. Nevertheless, even water doesn’t mood the expertise a lot. It’s much less of a barnburner, nevertheless it’s nonetheless effusive with notes of walnut oil and over-toasted spices, pepper, furnishings polish, and treacle. The end sweetens up over time, nevertheless it takes some doing to get there. There’s some appeal right here, however the nuance of the distillate is a bit trampled. 122 proof. B / $100
Filey Bay Yorkshire Single Malt Whisky Flagship
$62
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