Chapter 7 Prologue Batch 3 is a small-batch vatting, Speyside and Highland malts from independent distilleries, bottled at 47% volume. Approximately 6,000 numbered bottles, natural colour, non-chill-filtered. MATURATION: four to eight years in bourbon barrels and hogsheads, vatted across the batch. Each release pulls a different cask set selected at peak. SERVING: pour neat in a Glencairn or over a single large ice cube, the cold opens the mid-palate. Solid Whisky Sour base: 50 ml whisky, 25 ml lemon, 15 ml sugar syrup, one egg white, shaken hard. A sharing bottle for an evening, not a collector's piece.
Tasting notes
Pale gold with bright luminous highlights.
Green apples, stewed apricots, spring flowers.
Lemon curd, caramel drops, fried cane sugar, white pepper, winter spice.
Long, sharp: peppery malt, lemonade, dark roasted coffee.
The Monologue line gets the headlines, single casks, single voices, gone in 200 bottles. Prologue is the quieter discipline: small assemblies edited like a chorus rather than a soliloquy.This Batch 3 is what the line was suited to, a deliberately accessible blended malt, same editorial standard as the rare single casks, priced for the bottle to be opened, not cellared.
IWSC: Gold Medal (Chapter 7 expressions) Jim Murray's Whisky Bible: Whisky of the Year (Chapter 7 expressions)
