Wireworks Special Waters
Wireworks Special Waters
A new and extremely interesting release from the guys at Wireworks (White Peak). This is a difficult one to explain, so I am going to just take the information they have provided and paste it here:
A little over 3 years ago, Tom read an article about the Petit Eaux process in Congac, then set our own version in motion. We took some of our 3 year old whisky, split it into two casks, watered it down to 15% abv, then left those casks for 3 years to sit and extract all the fatty juices a cask only offer at lower ABVs.
Then after 3 years, we used some of that liquid to gradually proof this release down.
The final result is from a single cask, but with a bigger than usual bottle count as we've added 60L of the "special waters".
60L of the Special Waters (I call it fat juice) used in total. 25L was slowly added to the cask last year, then after disgorging the cask the rest was almost drip fed into an IBC marrying tank.
Can't call it a single cask though, as technically 5 casks have been in play.
In short, it's a big THICK boy. It's over 57% and we've seen it hazy at room temperature. It's like olive oil in the mouth.