Sherry Cask Malt W&M: the review of a simple and affordable single malt whisky
The W&M Sherry Cask Malt whisky is a classic distillate, a warm, enveloping, precise, and simple single malt. As soon as you smell it, it takes you back in the years, up to the 80s, when glen grant blends with pepper and sherry were all the rage.
Despite being a basic and straightforward product, it has its charm, performs well, and does not disappoint, especially as a perfume. It is a bit thin and neurotic on the palate, too bony, but they did a splendid job with wood.
How is it produced?
The alcoholic base is a very light and herbaceous single malt. The refinement takes place in sherry barrels, excellent for increasing volume, pumping the fruit, and making the initial malt nutty, oxidized and herbaceous.
Organoleptic characteristics
The bouquet is ancient, dusty, but well designed. Raisins, dates, walnuts, and hazelnuts are mixed with medicinal tones, light spices, undergrowth, and iodized returns. Luckily a little vanilla. It has a melancholy and decadent tone but a not indifferent charisma. Burnt caramel and apple pie dipped in plum jam in the finish.
On the palate, it is slender, very herbaceous, and subtle. Don’t expect a bomb or a crazy aromatic charge, like a fine whiskey without too many frills. The malt is savored, but the sherry casks do 90% of the work.
Price
36-37 euros: a calibrated price for a bottle that you will not drink very often, not as a hard-core enthusiast, but to keep at hand for holidays, grandparents, and not too demanding public.
Food Pairings
Tiramisù, chocolate salami, pear and chocolate tart, blueberry cheesecake, chocolate truffles, apple tart.
