This is almost a Spanish version of the Overaged Whisky from Michel Couvreur earlier.
It's distilled and partly aged in Scotland, to the point where it could be a Blended Scotch (so some grain whisky in there), and then shipped to Spain where it's aged at least five years in Oloroso casks and then 12 months in Pedro Ximenes. This is a Gonzalez Byass product so I guess they have some barrels around. That said the words used to describe the casks are "soaked" and "seasoned", which, I don't know, have a touch of the weasel about them.
The whisky is just about okay. Obviously there's a big sherry thing going on here, but it's not like your usual sherry-bomb -- the underlying whisky doesn't seem to have much of a character -- it's more like a fortified sherry that, unfortunately, reminds me of Metaxa.
Lovely bottle though.
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