Paul John Pedro Ximenez Select Cask is an unpeated Indian single malt from Goa, matured first in ex-bourbon barrels before finishing in Pedro Ximenez sherry casks. It spends around five years in bourbon wood and two years in PX casks, and is bottled without chill filtration. The PX finish brings a dense, dark-fruited sweetness that sets it apart from Paul John’s other cask expressions, helped along by the same fast tropical maturation that shapes all of Paul John’s Goa-matured whisky.
CHARACTER
Dried Fruit: raisin and fig from the sherry cask
Plum: ripe dark fruit on the nose
Chocolate: dark chocolate through the palate
Cinnamon: warm spice alongside clove and nutmeg
Malt: final note carried into the finish
Clove: clove on the palate
Nutmeg: nutmeg alongside the clove
Orange Peel: orange marmalade on the palate
TASTING NOTES
NOSE- Sherry sweetness brings raisins, dried plum and fig, with hints of Christmas cake and ripe banana.
PALATE- Drying oak carries cinnamon, clove and nutmeg, layered with dark chocolate and orange marmalade.
FINISH- Long, with charred sweetness, dark fruit and a final note of malt.
