Filey Bay Orange Wine Barrique

Unusually bottled at a maturation strength of 46.2%, the seven-year-old whisky is characterised as soft and fruity with flavours of orange cake, honeycomb, ripe citrus and stone fruits.
The whisky was matured in ex-Bourbon casks for three years and three months before being re-racked into orange wine casks for a further three years and 10 months.
Spirit of Yorkshire whisky director Joe Clark said: “Over the last few years, deep within our warehouse, four ex-orange wine barriques have been happily maturing for this deliciously different special release. But this isn’t the skin-contact orange wine you’d expect to find on the list of your local artisan wine bar.
“Vino Naranja del Condado de Huelva” comes from a very specific part of Spain, taking in the sunshine and oranges that the south is famous for. Made in a similar way to other fortified wines but with a key difference: the grape spirit used to fortify the base wine has been aromatised with orange peel before being matured.”
Joe added: “The natural reduction of strength over many years in the orange wine casks is a big part of what makes this whisky so smooth and delicious. In this very rare example, the strength in the bottle of 46.2% is the strength that the whisky reached in the cask all on its own with no final reduction before bottling. It’s a process that requires constant checking of the casks to make sure the whisky is bottled at precisely the right time.”