The English Whisky – Second-Fill Wine Cask (Small Batch Release 2025)

Smooth, gentle & beautifully nuanced — a quietly stunning small-batch release

The first release from The English Whisky Company’s Small Batch range for 2025 is a beautifully crafted marriage of four second-fill wine casks, resulting in a whisky that is soft, elegant and gently expressive. Second-fill casks offer subtler influence than first-fills, adding complexity without overpowering the spirit — and this release showcases that finesse to perfection.

Crafted at St George’s Distillery, where production is intentionally small to maintain exceptional quality, the Small Batch series takes limited releases even further. Each batch demonstrates the distillery team’s skill in selecting, marrying and maturing casks to highlight the very best of their single-malt stocks. With each batch one-of-a-kind and never repeated, this expression is available only while stocks last — and once it’s gone, it’s gone.

This smooth, delicate and fruit-forward whisky is a wonderful example of how second-fill wine casks can impart gentle sweetness, subtle richness and layers of refined flavour without overwhelming the bright, clean character of English single malt.

Tasting Notes

Casks

A marriage of four second-fill wine casks

Nose

Soft, rich and quietly complex:

• Cocoa

• Praline

• Black cherries

• Citrus peel

• Apricots

• Almonds

• A touch of tobacco

• Soft toffee
  With a splash of water, the fruit notes become more pronounced.

Palate

Delicate, smooth and subtly sweet:

• Dried fruits

• Buttery shortbread
  A gentle, refined palate with light maltiness and rounded sweetness.

Finish

A smooth, fruity finish that is perfectly balanced —
not too short, not too long, and wonderfully satisfying.