Transportation Whiskey Silver Hill Cygnet 49% 700mL

This is a very special release named after Silver Hill in Cygnet. My gg grandfather was one of the pioneers of Cygnet and they named Silver Hill after the Silvermine Mountains in Tipperary, the county where he was born. I find these connections that people made between their motherland and the place they ended up a wonderful part of history and I like to think the little hill must have brought some nice memories of the big mountains back at home.

This is one of the two casks that went into the new “Martin Brereton” release. I’ve never released these seperate deconstructed bottles of a whiskey before and they are extremely limited to just 26 bottles of each component.

This component is a very special second fill bourbon whiskey. Wonderful buttery oily mouthfeel that coats the palate and bursts with pot still spice then finishes with a long crème brûlée sweetness. The apple fruits coming through along with caramel and a lovely hint of liquorice makes this a surprising and delicate whiskey.