Before “terroir” became the fashionable framework for talking about English whisky, Cotswolds Distillery was already doing the work. The Field to Cask series traces each expression back to the individual farm where the barley grew. Cask No. 699 was filled in July 2016 using barley from Akeman Street Farm, a family arable operation on the Cotswold limestone plateau that has supplied the distillery since its founding year of 2014.
First-fill bourbon barrel. Eight years. Bottled November 2024 at 62.2% ABV. 186 bottles total. The nose runs to coconut and dried pineapple; the palate develops spiced plum, strawberry, and cinnamon, with the ABV keeping everything in useful tension. This is English single malt making its argument at the level of specific geography and single-cask transparency — not just a story about craft, but about a decade-long relationship between a distillery and a particular piece of land. Currently in stock directly from the distillery.
£125 — cotswoldsdistillery.com