Glenfiddich Fire & Cane – It’s Now Open For Preorder On Our Website – We Have A Limited Amount Of Bottles!
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Glenfiddich Fire & Cane – It’s Now Open For Preorder On Our Website – We Have A Limited Amount Of Bottles! Fire & Cane is the fourth expression to join the range and is a peated, no-age-statement (NAS) malt whisky that was first matured in Bourbon casks.The whisky was then finished in Latin rum casks to add “caramel toffee sweetness” to the spirit. Additional tasting notes include green fruits, baked apple, toasted marshmallow and soft spice.
Fire & Cane is bottled in a coloured glass that changes from a black/brown base to clear glass displaying the whisky. It was designed to physically highlight the contrasting flavours through colour.
With an abv of 43%, Glenfiddich Fire & Cane will be available in the US and the UK before being launched in Australia toward the end of 2018 or early 2019.
Brian Kinsman, Glenfiddich malt master, said: “We started with the question – what would happen if we did something with peat that we had not done before?
“The answer is an unconventional and unexpected whisky, one that is truly surprising. During the tastings, some experience the unusual smoky notes, while others tasted toffee flavours – this phenomenon can be attributed to the Scotch spending three months in sweet rum casks.”
Kinsman first ran peated spirit through the Glenfiddich stills in 2003, though this is the brand’s first peated whisky to have been finished in rum casks.
Glenfiddich Fire & Cane joins fellow Experimental Series expressions Glenfiddich IPA Experiment and Glenfiddich Project XX, which both launched in 2016, and Glenfiddich Winter Storm, which launched in 2017.
ABV: 43%
- REGION: Speyside
- FLAVOUR CAMP: Smoky & Peaty
- NOSE
- The name gives away a certain level of expectation, which the nose lives up to. Yes, there’s smoke, but it’s a dying disposable barbecue, grilled orchard fruits and banana. It’s earthy for a Glenfiddich, with the richness of Demerara sugar and molasses, but the distillery’s trademark red apple and pear signature is written all over, an element that’s amplified with a few drops of water.
- PALATE
- Soft and sweet, muscovado sugar now, with an earthy rumminess, though it’s not quite agricole territory. There are baking spices and toasted marshmallow with a hint of nuts. The smoke isn’t overwhelming at first, letting the sweetness speak for itself, but there’s a metallic soapiness tied into the smoke that soon assumes control.
- FINISH
- Sweet – almost goaty – smoke.
- CONCLUSION
- Glenfiddich describes the latest addition to its Experimental Series as a whisky that ‘will divide you’. A peated malt that’s finished in rum casks, it certainly does feel like a whisky of two halves. That said, perhaps the sample was tainted…