Millstone 2019 Windmill Collection No.5 Unpeated 1st Fill Banyuls Casks (70cl, 53.2%)

This is an unpeated single malt whisky from the Netherlands, distilled on 5 March 2019 and bottled on 6 May 2026. It matured for seven years in two first-fill Banyuls wine hogsheads, casks 190097 and 190099, and was bottled at 53.2% ABV in a limited original bottling of 571 bottles. It is not chill filtered and not coloured. The Banyuls maturation gives a rich, fruity-sweet profile: ripe apricot, dark plum, honey and vanilla lead to juicy cherry, orange, caramel and bittersweet chocolate, with cinnamon, cardamom and oak framing the wine fruit. The nose combines ripe apricot and dark plum with honey, vanilla and an orange accent, with intense cherry fruit. On the palate there are juicy cherry, orange and bittersweet chocolate on a creamy texture with caramel, cinnamon, cardamom and soft vanilla. The finish is long and spicy, with oak, cherry sweetness, cinnamon and vanilla lingering.