Victoria Caledonian Distillery: Inaugural Cask Offer
- custom design your own 30L single malt, single cask whisky –
From Graeme Macaloney, Victoria Caledonian Distillery
I am delighted to announce the Victoria Caledonian Distillery is now producing single malt new-make spirit and has a popular 30L custom-designed single malt, cask owners program.
Uniquely, we have great Scottish whisky makers in Dr. Jim Swan and Mike Nicolson, the best pot stills from Forsyths coppersmiths in Scotland, and finest ingredients (incl. oak wood from Spain, Portugal and Kentucky) underscoring the quality of our single malt cask offer. Dr. Swan, said when commissioning our distilling process that:
“your new-make is the best that I have seen in any distillery at this stage, super fruity”.
Truly a great compliment from the man behind the World Whisky Awards Best Single Malt Whisky of 2015. Thanks also to Mike Nicolson’s expertise as a 3rd generation master distiller having worked in 18 Scotch whisky distilleries, our new-make is super-fruity, surprisingly smooth, with a clean, mouth-watering malt base.
As you design your own cask(s) of whisky from our choice of 10 oak wood casks and 5 different new-make spirits (unpeated, light peated, medium peated, heavy peated single malt, and Irish-style pot still whisky), with input and support from Andrew Campbell Walls, our Scottish level III WSET whisky Sommelier, we are confident that the resulting whisky will be top quality. This is underscored by the fact that you are buying a 30L portion of a 200L – 500L cask, the remainder of which will be bottled and sold by our distillery as special expressions.
R to L: 3rd generation Scotch Master Distiller Mike Nicolson, world award winning Scottish wood maturation expert Dr. Jim Swan, and Founder/fermentation engineer, Scotsman Dr. Graeme Macaloney.
We have carefully designed the cask offering to be a fun, interactive experience all the way from designing your cask with Andrew from your choice 5 new-make spirits and 10 oak-wood options, to distillery visits to track your spirit’s progress, to bottling parties and ultimately a bottle / case swapping party where you might exchange your whisky with other cask owners you may have coordinated with!
We have carefully designed the cask offering to be a fun, interactive experience all the way from designing your cask with Andrew from your choice 5 new-make spirits and 10 oak-wood options, to distillery visits to track your spirit’s progress, to bottling parties and ultimately a bottle / case swapping party where you might exchange your whisky with other cask owners you may have coordinated with!
R to L: 3rd generation Scotch Master Distiller Mike Nicolson, world award winning Scottish wood maturation expert Dr. Jim Swan, and Founder/fermentation engineer, Scotsman Dr. Graeme Macaloney.
Caley Academy.
For those who purchase 4 casks, we have a special reward program such that you will be eligible to attend our 5 day exclusive Caledonian Academy at no extra cost (due to its exclusivity, the Caley Academy is restricted to one person per 4 casks). This academy carries a value of $1,500 and is not open to the public but reserved for distillery investors and cask owners, and select ‘trade’ people.
Curriculum:
* Theory 101 (mornings): malting, brewing, distilling, maturation;
* Practical hands-on (afternoons, depending on production schedule): Turning the malt floor, milling the grist, mashing for wort, extracting the hops, fermenting, cutting the spirit, filling casks;
* ‘Quality control tastings’: valinch cask sampling, tutored tastings (beers & whiskies), blending
* Graduation party: Caley Academy Diploma presentation.
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