November 2020 – thewhiskyof.today

Two new expressions from Cooper’s choice

Both expression is Islay malt from the distilleries Caol Ila and Bunnahabhain.
Caol Ila beeing distilled in may 2009 and bottled 2020, aged in refilled sherry casks and only 300 bottles were made of this beauty. Bottled at 54,4% abv.

Second bottle is a very interesting one with a cask finish of white port. Dont think I’ve seen that before.
It’s heavily peated  and bottled at 58% abv. Of this expression 318 bottles were made.
Two very interesting expressions and they always contain lots of good info on the bottle and delivering interesting expressions time after time.

Macaya Chocolate rum

Macaya Chocolate rum is a rum infused with chocolate bottled at 40% abv.
This is an expression handcrafted by the Belgium distillery Radermacher.
It’s a preium orcanic rum bottled in a 50cl well designed bottle.

The rum is aged in both american and french oak in Belgium then filtered
through organic Trinitario cacao beans. The rum is made from classic sugar cane
and the cacao beans comes from Haiti where everey bought bottle supports “Acted”
for its action in Haiti.

Macaya is the name of the national park in the south of the Republic of Haiti bordered
by Trinitario cocao plantations.