Drayman’s Highveld 5 Year Old Single Malt French Oak Reserve

Drayman’s Brewery Highveld South African  5 Year Old Single Malt Whisky 

Drayman’s South African Highveld 5 Yeat Old Single Malt Whisky is the first single malt  whisky from the African continent to be sold in the US. This whisky is distilled from 100%  pale barley malt, all of which is grown in the Swartland area of South Africa. The malt is  fermented for an unusually long period of seven days with their own proprietary house  yeast slurry. Fermentation is enhanced with a lactic final phase in order to enhance the  smoothness of the distillate. This whisky is twice distilled, and enters the cask at 65% abv.  Drayman’s uses exceptionally deep cuts: using only 8-10% of the spirit. Comparatively,  Macallan has some of the deepest cuts in the world and uses 16% of their spirit. The spirit  rests for a minimum of five years in medium-toasted Bordeaux casks, which previously  held South African wines (both red and white). 

Technical Details 

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: South Africa

TYPE OF SPIRIT: Single Malt Whisky 

MASH BILL: 100% unpeated pale barley malt, grown in  the Swartland area of the Cape Province of South Africa 

CASKS: Aged in 225L medium toasted  ex-Bordeaux (both red and white wine) casks PROOF: 86