Cù Bòcan 12 Year Old Caribbean Rum Cask

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For only 1 week a year, the legendary Tomatin Distillery distils from lightly-peated barley and to produce a MULTI-AWARD WINNING, 12 year old single malt matured in RUM CASKS from Guyana and Barbados. For the FIRST TIME in Australia you get to feast your whisky taste buds on the Cù Bòcan 12yo Caribbean Rum Cask!

  • Best Scottish Single Malt (12yo and under) – World Whiskies Awards 2024
  • Gold – San Francisco World Spirit Competition 2024

Make way Australia for the VERY LIMITED Cù Bòcan 12yo Caribbean Rum Cask – a whisky peated by name, but hardly by nature – from the Highland Tomatin Distillery. We’re stoked to introduce the very first batch of the Cù Bòcan Caribbean Rum Cask to the Aussie market.

Look, this is a peated whisky to be sure – I mean, it says so on the label right! Right? But I think it’s about as close to the line as a whisky can be and still look at itself in the mirror when it calls itself peated. There are certainly no burnt rubber notes, no hospital iodine and band aids, no tar, oil or bitumen in this. If you ‘don’t like peated whisky’ you can still love this one. It’s fruity, it’s crisp and clean on the palate, light and delicious whisky– not an oily, heavy, ‘feels like getting lung cancer’ peated whisky. Interestingly though – for some reason the peat effect seems to be magnified by a smokey-cokey (peated whisky and coke) if that’s your thing! But neat – this is a light, fruity and easy drinking whisky that I think is perfect now the warm weather has taken hold.

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For only 1 week a year, the legendary Tomatin Distillery distils from lightly-peated barley and to produce a MULTI-AWARD WINNING, 12 year old single malt matured in RUM CASKS from Guyana and Barbados. For the FIRST TIME in Australia you get to feast your whisky taste buds on the Cù Bòcan 12yo Caribbean Rum Cask!

  • Best Scottish Single Malt (12yo and under) – World Whiskies Awards 2024
  • Gold – San Francisco World Spirit Competition 2024

Make way Australia for the VERY LIMITED Cù Bòcan 12yo Caribbean Rum Cask – a whisky peated by name, but hardly by nature – from the Highland Tomatin Distillery. We’re stoked to introduce the very first batch of the Cù Bòcan Caribbean Rum Cask to the Aussie market.

Now, what do you do if you’re a Highland whisky brand who’s light and fruity whisky is ‘their brand’ but want to make some peated whisky without alienating their established customers? Well, one way to do it is to sell your peated whisky under an entirely different brand name – and this is exactly what Tomatin Distillery had done with Cù Bòcan. Starting in 2013, for one week every year in winter, Tomatin distils wash made from lightly peated barley and [eventually- once matured] sells this peated under the ‘Cù Bòcan’ brand name.

In between the distilling and the bottling – as we all know – is the maturation stage, and it’s here that Cù Bòcan really sets out on its own journey. Cù Bòcan is more than just Tomatin’s peated alter-ego. The name ” Cù Bòcan” translates to “Ghost Dog” in Gaelic, inspired by a local Highland legend of a spectral hound that has roamed the area for centuries. The brands motto is ‘Unlock the Unusual’ and it does so by maturing in a variety of casks interesting casks to unlock unusual flavours.

Cù Bòcan 12 Year Old Caribbean Rum Cask

The Cù Bòcan 12yo Caribbean Rum Cask Batch #1 was made form lightly peated Scottish barely. Initially matured in ex-bourbon American oak casks, it was finished for 9 months in casks from un-named rum distilleries from Guyana and Barbados (so I’m thinking Diamond Distillery and Foursquare casks, perhaps?) and bottled at 46%abv. This is the very first batch of this delicious whisky and is exclusive in Australia to the Single Malt Whisky Club.

Now we love our ‘world whiskies’ here at the Single Malt Whisky Club, but it’s always nice to return to the birthplace of single malt whisky – especially when it’s a lesser-known brand with an interesting story. Of course, we’re even more interested in the whisky itself… so it’s nice when the planets align and we can get a lesser known Scottish whisky, well over a decade old, not to mention one with such a flavour profile that’s both familiar, and a little bit unusual – and definitely easy to dram!

Cù Bòcan 12 Year Old Caribbean Rum Cask

OUR TASTING NOTES

Nose: At first a musty malt aroma but a definite hint of Caribbean ‘rum funk’ there with a sweet, overripe tropical fruit salad note, hot-summer-nights summer jasmine flowers plus just a tiny pinch of sweet polyethene glue note in the very peripheries.

Palate: Rather dry on the palate at first with medium ginger heat curtain that parts to allow crisp green apple and tart-sweet pineapple, candied citrus rind and vanilla.

Finish: A rather crisp and clean finish. There’s just the smallest suggestion of smoke there at the end, but the fadeout is mostly those fruity notes again.

Look, this is a peated whisky to be sure – I mean, it says so on the label right! Right? But I think it’s about as close to the line as a whisky can be and still look at itself in the mirror when it calls itself peated. There are certainly no burnt rubber notes, no hospital iodine and band aids, no tar, oil or bitumen in this. If you ‘don’t like peated whisky’ you can still love this one. It’s fruity, it’s crisp and clean on the palate, light and delicious whisky– not an oily, heavy, ‘feels like getting lung cancer’ peated whisky. Interestingly though – for some reason the peat effect seems to be magnified by a smokey-cokey (peated whisky and coke) if that’s your thing! But neat – this is a light, fruity and easy drinking whisky that I think is perfect now the warm weather has taken hold.

WHISKY STATS

  • Bottle Size : 700ml
  • ABV : 46%
  • Region : SCOTLAND (HIGHLANDS)
  • Peated : YES
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Cù Bòcan Caribbean Rum Cask

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Weight 1.4 kg
Dimensions 12 × 12 × 35 cm

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