Wire Works adds Port cask to core range
English producer White Peak Distillery has extended its Wire Works Provenance Core Range with a tawny Port cask-aged single malt.
Port Cask is the third permanent expression in the distillery’s newly renamed Provenance Core Range, joining Caduro and Bourbon Barrel.
Max Vaughan, founder of White Peak Distillery, said: “Almost a decade since we started, it feels like a coming of age to be able to add a third release to our Wire Works Provenance Core Range, which will form the foundation for the future of the distillery alongside Caduro and Bourbon Barrel.
“Whisky requires long-term attention to detail, and an acceptance that nothing can be rushed, and our new Port Cask embodies this considered approach, together with our other two core products.”
The new Wire Works Port Cask is a lightly peated whisky aged in tawny Port barriques from Dias Cooperage and first-fill American oak ex-Bourbon barrels.
Offered at 50.2% ABV, the single malt displays aromas of Bakewell pudding, milk chocolate, cinder toffee, and candied ginger, followed on the palate by notes of strawberries and cream, marzipan, lemon curd, vanilla fudge, bonfire toffee, hibiscus, and eucalyptus.
Wire Works Port Cask is available from White Peak Distillery’s shop and UK trade partners, with an RRP of £65 (US$87) for a 700ml bottle.
All Wire Works whiskies are produced entirely onsite, from mashing, fermentation, distillation, maturation, and bottling.
Port casks have formed a select part of White Peak’s inventory since the distillery was established in 2016 in Derbyshire, England.
The distillery has previously released Double Oak Port, Full Port, and distillery-exclusive hand-filled bottlings matured in tawny Port casks. Earlier this year, White Peak launched Port Wine LBV, a release finished in Late Bottled Vintage Port barriques.
The initial launch in the UK will be followed by availability from international partners at a later date.
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