The Stillery's Limited Edition: Chateau de Vie 2018

Some spirits go from the still straight into a bottle. This one took the long way round: four years, three casks. It has seen things. Chateau de Vie 2018 is the oldest of our four vintages, an eau de vie distilled from Montepulciano grape pomace. For after dinner, or for the friend who already owns every whisky.

FOUR YEARS, THREE CASKS

Once city winery Chateau Amsterdam has pressed its grapes, they're done with the skins, seeds and stems. We're just getting started. We collected the pomace of their 2018 Montepulciano, let it ferment for two weeks and distilled it. Then it went from a new oak wine barrel to a sherry cask to a bourbon cask. What the winemaker leaves behind, we turn into something new. Like every vintage: 500 bottles, no more.

IN THE GLASS

Auburn. Intense and complex, with a smooth mouthfeel and a long finish.

HOW TO DRINK IT

Neat: 30 ml at room temperature in a tulip glass, no ice. Let it breathe for a minute: it waited four years, it can wait one more.

Taste it next to its younger siblings in Limited Editions.

Volume: 500 ml · Alcohol: 37.5% vol · Vintage 2018 · max. 500 bottles