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$181
A single Brazilian cask from Epris bottled by Duncan Taylor, eighteen years in ex-bourbon yet reduced to a featherweight 37.5%, offering white chocolate, sugarcane and red fruit on the nose before a thin, dry and watery palate.
Description
Labelled as a cachaca and drawn as a single cask by Scottish house Duncan Taylor, this 1999 Epris bottling is an unusual proposition. Despite the cachaca name it is recorded as molasses-based and column-distilled, so it reads closer to a light Brazilian aged spirit than the fresh-cane-juice purity the category is built on. It carries eighteen years in an ex-bourbon barrel.
The aroma is the most generous part, with white chocolate, a clear thread of sugarcane, red fruits and young, sappy wood. On the palate the long ageing struggles to assert itself against a very low bottling strength, leaving it thin, diluted and dry with a green woodiness rather than depth. At 37.5% it is honestly a delicate, watered-down sipper, one for the curious chasing an aged Brazilian oddity rather than for richness.
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