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World whisky review #98: Circumstance Organic Single Grain Wheat Whisky 2:3:1:32:42

Category: Single Grain (organic malted wheat and malted barley)

Distillery: Circumstance Distillery

Region: Bristol, England

Bottler: Distillery Bottling

Series: Single Grain Organic Whisky

Age: 42 months

Cask(s): Cider conditioned ex-bourbon and chestnut

ABV: 46.1%

Fermentation: 14 day Saison and Bavarian wheat yeast

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𝙽𝚘𝚜𝚎: Apple blossom and floral sweetness developing into sharper, but not too sharp green grape, kiwi and green melon on a bed of vanilla cream. Wood spice comes courtesy of zesty nutmeg and mace. Over time the fruit becomes pear drops, green apple and lime boiled sweets.

𝙿𝚊𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎: Crisp white wine! White grape, cooking apple, greengauge lime peel. Slickly viscous like deep chilled schnapps on the approach but losing some sweetness and heading to dryness and minerality towards the mid-palate

𝙵𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚑: More cooking apple acidity now dampened by runny honey. Sandy, powdered mustard and ginger with horseradish heat. Lime cordial shandy diluted with flinty, oily mineral water

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𝙽𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚜: There are lots of rules and regulations in whisky making and Circumstance is a distillery that has shown real understanding of what they are and why they are, so that they can say “F*ck no - Hold my beer”.

I’ve been following them for a few years and they keep putting out really tasty and interesting spirits that quite regularly, for one regulatory reason or another, might not be able to be called whisky.

This one *is* being called a whisky and is a wheat-heavy, organic single grain that has a couple of eye-grabbingly controversial points to its production that make it both attractive and taboo.

Cider seasoned ex-bourbon casks with secondary chestnut maturation? How risque. Remember the Glen Moray affair?

If this was scotch, no doubt the SWA would be browsing their phone book for (what I imagine are) their regularly employed contract assassins. But Bristol, being in the southwest of England, is safely out of their jurisdiction.

The distillery has also decided not to sign up to the English Whisky Guild, an emergent somewhat equivalent body to the SWA with some familiar production constraints, as it would potentially limit their rebellious tinkering.

And I say more power to them. The further out they push the boat, the better the results, and this bottle is another success in that vein.

The cider seasoning has made it unexpectedly wine-like in its crisp green acidity. It goes really well with the needle-fine spice of the chestnut, while the oiled and sweet grains are a measured counterbalance rounded out by the late mineralic wheat beeriness.

I like Circumstance a lot. Theyre habitual line-steppers who seem only too happy to go places nobody else will dare, and then make tasty stuff when they get there.

Creative subversion. Very Bristol.

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https://www.whiskybase.com/whiskies/whisky/257742/circumstance-organic-single-grain-wheat-whisky

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldwhisky/comments/1f86dnj/world_whisky_review_98_circumstance_organic/

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