An English single malt whisky has been acknowledged as one of the best on this planet. Higher than Scotland’s most interesting!

The Norfolk-based English Distillery grew to become the primary operational whisky distillery in additional than 100 years. 

The whisky is made utilizing barley grown regionally and your entire distillation technique of milling, mashing, and distilling with a pair of conventional and exquisite copper stills, and maturing within the most interesting oak casks takes place on-site.

Bottled by hand in Breckland, The English Sherry Cask is an unpeated single malt whisky, which has been matured from begin to end within the most interesting PX sherry casks to create a shocking expression that it stated had been “nicely well worth the wait”.

The distillery discovered of its world-winning success in entrance of the whisky business’s most interesting at Service provider Taylors’ Corridor as awards organizer, Whisky Journal, celebrated “one of the best folks, locations, and merchandise within the whisky world”.

Based by Lincolnshire farmer James Nelstrop to meet a lifelong dream, the distillery – guided by the expertise of legendary Grasp Distiller Ian Henderson – started to put down whiskies in its dunnage warehouses, with the only real intention of creating world-class single malt whisky in England following a century’s absence of whisky making within the nation.

Like all its whiskies, the successful whisky was made utilizing barley grown regionally and on the Nelstrop household farms. Your complete distillation technique of milling, mashing, distilling with a pair of conventional and exquisite copper stills, maturing within the most interesting oak casks, and hand bottling, all happen on the distillery. James’ son Andrew, has led the 20-strong workforce since his father died in 2014.

Andrew stated: “We’re shocked. While any whisky maker hopes to win an award, successful the massive one is the conclusion of my father’s sole aim of making world-class single malt whiskies in England, and sharing them with whisky lovers all over the world.”

The daddy of two, whose spouse Katy works alongside him as The English Distillery’s Advertising Director, added: “It is a tremendous approach to rejoice our 18th 12 months of whisky distilling. It’s a testomony to our distillers’ work and I do know my father would have been vastly happy with this achievement, as are we.”

Because the English Whisky class continues to develop with tempo, this award is one other milestone for whisky making in England, significantly when it’s judged in opposition to a number of the most interesting single malt whiskies from all over the world, together with Scotland.

The successful whisky boasts aromas of wealthy darkish fruits from the sherry-filled casks, which mix in a nostril of uncooked honey and vanilla, resulting in a burst of candy toffee, cherries, and digestives on the palate. The result’s a splendidly balanced and wealthy whisky that isn’t outshone by the wooden.

Bottled at 46% abv, non-chill filtered and pure in shade, The English Sherry Cask is a no-age-statement whisky that’s a part of the distillery’s core vary, which incorporates The English Unique and The English Smokey (each RRP £47.50, 70cl bottle). Home of Malt describes the successful whisky as a “pleasant newcomer to The English Distillery’s core vary with a luxuriously thick sherry character, brimming with flavors of crumbly biscuits, easy vanilla caramel, simmered berries, and sun-dried figs”.

The English Distillery is England’s oldest registered whisky distillery. In 1901 the final recorded whisky distillery in England swapped from whisky to gin manufacturing earlier than being destroyed by hearth. This noticed the tip of whisky distilleries in England till The English Whisky Co. Ltd was granted a license to distill whisky by HMRC. Ir reopened in 2006.

Now not did good barley go all the best way to Scotland to be made into premium whisky.

Out there from  Home of Malt,  English Whisky, and thru main international retailers together with Bottle Apostle, The Spirt Specialist, and The Whisky World.