Selecting single casks is not a science but a matter of taste, an art: where a standard of perfection cannot exist our creativity and personal taste are what drive us to prefer one cask over another, imagining how the spirit will marry with the wood and develop once finally poured and sealed in the bottle.

In a world of sometimes overwhelming wood influence, we always seek the true distillery character: choosing what we like the most over what we believe will sell more is the hardest of choices, but it is in fact the only one that matters when quality and not quantity is the ultimate goal.

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