This is Whisky Sponge Equilibrium III, the final bottling in the Equilibrium series. It's a 22-year-old, multi-vintage single malt crafted from a refill-matured 1997 vintage whisky and sherry-finished 2000 vintage whisky that were married together in a second-fill sherry hogshead. The whisky was designed to showcase a balanced sherry and peat malt whisky profile and is presented at 53% ABV.
The result is the softest of the three Equilibrium bottlings in terms of peat level, and probably the richest in terms of sherry character. But overall, this is a wonderful, complex and beautifully quaffable sherry and peat influenced dram, one where age and time have also worked some pretty delicious tricks... It tastes like spooning a kipper inside a grandfather clock full of expensive cigars.
