Product Overview

Age	44 Years
Outturn	256 Bottles
Volume	70CL
Strength	46.3% ABV
Colour	Walnut

A Breath of Fresh Air

44 Year Old

The Old Confectioner's

Warming, enormously satisfying, and lightly drying on the finish, years of marrying in refill sherry butts have created a fully unified, wonderfully evocative Blended Malt Whisky that transports the drinker to the old-fashioned sweet shops of our youth.

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"It may be the power of suggestion, but after an initial hit of ripe red fruits, scents of boiled sweets and mint toffee leap from the glass. The palate focuses much more on dried fruits with a whisper of smoke and more of that mint toffee, subsiding into Pontefract cakes."

Richard Woodward

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"The nose is rich and decadent with honeysuckle and heather. The is palate strong and sherried, or is that just dark fruits showing through? Over time new layers emerge of toffee, vanilla, and butterscotch. There is still a lot of flavour here and not wood dominant. Very nice!"

David Pearce

"The youngest malt whisky in this blend is 44 years old, but some may be considerably older, after marrying for years in refill sherry butts, the candied fruit on the nose gives way to dark toffee and liquorice on the palate, with a pleasantly dry and oaky finish, recalling the sweet shops of yesteryear."

Simon Thomson

City AM

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"Whiskies such as this, transport the imbiber to lost places that cannot be revisited any other way. An aged malt, rich with the treacle toffee, liquorice and candied fruit notes found in old sweet shops, it’s warming, satisfying and lightly drying on the finish, unified by years of maturation in refill sherry butts."

Ross

The Luxury Editor

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The Finer Details

Certain whiskies have the ability to transport the drinker back to lost places that cannot be revisited any other way. Such is the case with this remarkable aged malt, rich with the treacle toffee, liquorice and candied fruit notes found in old sweet shops. Warming, enormously satisfying, and lightly drying on the finish, years of marrying in refill sherry butts have created a fully unified, wonderfully evocative Blended Malt Whisky.

An extensive secondary maturation in refill sherry casks.
Offered at a natural cask strength.
Free from artificial colouring.
Non-chill filtered.
Packaged in a hand engraved, individually numbered decanter with ash display box featuring gold leaf inlay.

Nose

Familiar sweet shop notes of liquorice and luscious candied fruit greet the nose.

Palate

On the palate, initial caramelised notes lead into a darker treacle toffee and liquorice character. The finish is long and complex – moving slowly from sweet to dry with flashes of leather and oak recalling old wooden countertops.