NL Millstone
Millstone American Oak 700ml
里程碑10年美国橡木
Millstone 10YO American oak is the most robust Millstone whisky.
The whisky is aged in new American oak. These barrels add a rich vanilla and honey sweetness to the whisky with delicate notes of coconut and spices like cinnamon and cloves.
In 2014 won Millstone American oak a silver medal in the Wizards of whisky competition in London.
Main Category: Drinks
Sub Category: Spirits
Description
| Grain: | Unpeated malted barly. | |
| Age: | Minimum is 10 years old. | |
| Barrel: | New American oak | |
| ABV: |
43% |
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| Labelling: | Bottles are labelled by hand and details of the whisky are written on the label. |
The Proces – How we do it
MILLSTONE Dutch Single Malt Whisky is hand crafted in the traditional distillery that is owned and operated by the Zuidam Family.
More than 50 years of experience in distilling of exclusive spirits and a constant search for perfection has led to the birth of this exquisite Millstone whisky.
WINDMOLENS mill the malted barley that is used to produce this Malt Whisky.
In using windmills for milling their malted barley the distillery helps preserve the important Dutch heritage of the world famous windmills.
Even more importantly the traditional millstones of the windmills slowly grind the malted barley into flour.
This traditional way of milling causes almost no increase in the temperature of the grain and thus helps preserve the wonderful aroma’s.
MASHING the grain is done by adding hot water to the malted barley.
The hot water triggers the enzymes to convert the starch from the grain into sugars.
The process takes about 5 hours per batch. The resulting Mash is cooled to 20 ° Celsius and pumped to the fermentation tank.
THE FERMENTATION is done in small batches at a very low temperature to give this whisky its fruity flavors.
The fermentation takes about 5 days. This is much longer than is customary but is essential to allow for the delicate flavors to form.
DISTILLATION, Millstone Whisky is double distilled in handcrafted copper pot stills.
The small stills have an extraordinary large copper surface if you compare them to the large stills used elsewhere.
The extra contact between the alcohol vapors and the copper helps to eliminate any unwanted substances and also stimulates the formation of the complex and fruity esters.
The small stills thus produce a very delicate and fruity new spirit.
AGING, After the careful distillation the whisky is aged in small barrels.
We use new barrels of American white oak as well as barrels that have previously held Bourbon and Olorosso Sherry.
Because we use new or barrels that have been used only 1 time and we store the barrels in a warm and dry warehouse the whisky ages rather quickly.
The downside is that the evaporation losses are rather high. Typically the “Angels Share” is between 4% and 5% per year.
Specifications
HISTORY
The Distillery was started back in 1975.
The idea was to start a small distillery that only produced very exclusive products. He build a small distillery of 300 square meters with 1 small copper still and 1 small production line.
After a long and struggling beginning it took him over 10 years to create the reputation of being the finest distillery in the Netherlands. But it was only after his wife started creating the packaging for the products of the distillery that business really took off. In 1989 they expanded their warehouse with 600 square meters and one production line.
These days both sons Patrick and Gilbert run the distillery under the watchful eyes of their parents. With Patrick caring for the distillery and production and Gilbert looking after the customers. They run a state of the art distillery of 3600 square meters with 4 brand new copper stills, over 1000 oak barrels, 4 production lines and a modern tank storage.
In all these years the aim of the distillery has never changed. Please the customers and try to produce the best products possible.
The Dutch distillers still creates their products in the traditional artisanal way. All ingredients are 100% natural and are carefully selected and processed into the most beautiful products in our family owned and run distillery. All recipes are designed by father Fred and son Patrick.
Painting With Flavors is Art.
The same care and attention with which we create our spirits we also give to the packaging of our wide range of products.
We hope that you will enjoy our products as we have enjoyed creating them for you.
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