A fulfilling time
Owning your own cask of malt is arguably the ultimate whisky experience.Having selected his cask type Dominic Roskrow travelled to Glengoyne to fill it with new spirit.
Weâre a motley crew for sure. Bleary-eyed, wet, bedraggled. Expectant and excited. And undoubtedly as happy as any human being has the right to be.
Weâve only known each other a few hours but weâve shared a meal together, consumed considerable amounts of fine whisky, put the world to rights and argued about the merits of defensive rugby during the recent world cup (to the bemusement of the European contingent among us).
Now weâre standing in a constant and persistent drizzle wrapped up in anoraks on a dull winterâs day. And you know what? None of us could care less.
In fact, I donât think any of us has noticed. For in a moment we are going to put down our glasses of Glengoyne Cask Ownersâ Malt and one by one weâre going to fill a cask with new make spirit and embark on a journey that will bind us together for the next decade or more.
Filling your own cask of whisky with a group of other people is like adopting a new family. Theyâre your oak folk, your cask mates, people who now share a special birthday with you and who youâre already planning to meet up with on anniversaries years hence.
And you share with them that smug knowledge that one day you might swap drams and debate whose cask performed best. And of course itâll be yours.
Iâd been looking forward to this day for weeks, ever since I sat down one summer evening and tasted cask samples to select my cask. And there was plenty to be excited about: Glengoyne is a small, pretty and friendly dis.....
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By Dominic Roskrow
Section : Cask Ownership
Page number : 8
