Penderyn Madeira Finish

This light coloured Welch whiskey comes in a cool box. But a box isn't going to be enough if the whiskey is crap. However, the Penderyn Madeira Finish is excellent so the box just adds to its cool. Clocking in at 46% it's nice and strong, but may require a little more water to get to the more delicious flavours.

The dominant scent in the nose is vanilla, with an underlying sweetness and fruitiness, more leaning towards slightly fermenting grapes, probably from the Madeira (fortified Portuguese wine) casks they were finished in. Lots of blending smells so it's interesting to linger on. Perhaps there's even a very subtle hint of coffee in there.

The palate brings out more sweet with maybe caramel or vanilla fudge. There's a dispute about there maybe being some oak or malt, maybe a cereal wheaty taste. It's very slight, whatever it is.

The finish is nice and medium. Slight malty and tingles of spiciness that may be due to the higher alcohol content. Kind of the nice slight burn of ginger with a little more vanilla fudge.