#339 Wine & Whisky - Tullibardine & Coume del Mas

 Putting whisky, particularly single malt whisky, into wine, port or sherry casks is nothing new.  However, declaring the provenance of the casks isn't often done unless the distillery wants to shout about having barrels from a rather famous Bordeaux producer.

This isnt the case at Tullibardine, whe they have released a Banyuls casket whisky, and have declared that the wine casks were from Coume del Mas, and once housed the Galeteo Banyuls. 

I got a chance to try the new whisky, and thought it would be a good time to revisit the wine as well.

2009 Coume del Mas Banyuls
Lovely strawberry aromas with a lot of darker bramble and raisin flavours.  Good fruit on the palate, a tannic and spice nature coming through with lots of dark, liquorice and cocoa.  Very very good with with a long, dark aftertaste.  8/10

Tullibardine Banyuls Finish
A rich sweet aroma, lots of red berry fruit and a strawberry aroma.   Rose colour, some spice but then you get the dried fruit and a bundle of dried strawberry.  A lot of Jammy notes, some high alcohol but a lovely long, sweeter finish.  8/10 £30 per bottle

When trying both together, you can see that the wine has given a lot of it's flavour to the whisky,  with berry fruit coming through the flavour of the Tullibardine.  If this distillery builds relationships with other wine producers who allow them to put their name on the whisky, maybe even incorporate some brand identity too, Tullibardine could have an interesting, fun and profitable unique selling point.