Blackadder - Scotch Whisky Venom Black Snake 6 year old (700ml)

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This whisky is from a Vatting of casks of Single Malt Whisky. Casks of Single Malt Whisky from one particular distillery. It has been finished in an Oloroso Sherry Butt - bottled without chill-filtration and there is no added color.
Black Snake starts its life in first-fill ex-Bourbon casks. We then take three of these matured casks and put three of them into new Oloroso sherry butts and leave them for about a year for further maturation before removing and bottling two-thirds of each cask. We call these casks 'Vats' as they are a kind of mini Solera.

After each bottling, we add two more matured ex-Bourbon casks, always of the same whisky, and leave for around a year before again bottling two-thirds of the Vat. All future bottlings from each vatting of Black Snake will therefore contain some spirit that was in the previous expressions from the Butt. Each time we bottle we call it Venom, as in the poison from a snake's bite. The first bottling from each Vat is called First Venom, and the second bottling is called Second Venom, and so on.