Aberfeldy 23 Years Old 1994 Cask #6979 (Whisky.de)

Distilled at Aberfeldy in 1994 and matured 23 years in a single Oloroso sherry cask numbered 6979, bottled by Whisky.de in 2017 at cask strength 53.4% for the German specialist trade. 444 bottles in total. The cask retains the Aberfeldy Exceptional Cask Series designation, indicating it was bought directly from the distillery's ECS programme and bottled under the Whisky.de label rather than the distillery's own. Whisky.de is one of Germany's largest specialist whisky retailers, founded by Horst Lüning, with the firm running select exclusive cask buy programmes alongside their core retail catalogue.

Long fermentation Aberfeldy wash from the four still post expansion configuration, distilled in 1994 in the United Distillers ownership era. Filled into a single Oloroso sherry cask and aged 23 years at the distillery's warehouses before transfer to Whisky.de for bottling. Bottled at cask strength 53.4% with no chill filtering and no caramel adjustment.

Twenty three years in seasoned Oloroso butt drives heavy melanoidin extraction from prior sherry reduction in the staves, sotolon development for baked fruit and aged Cognac depth, and substantial ellagitannin and gallic acid extraction from European oak supplying the walnut skin, dried fig and dark chocolate character. Aberfeldy's house ester profile (ethyl laurate, ethyl myristate, heavier alcohols) carries the heather honey core through, with two decades of slow oxidation adding polymerised polyphenols and acetal compounds for soft leather and aged tobacco notes.