Malt Of The Month December 2024 - Perpetuity Batch II

Perpetuity is The Leith Export Co's infinite blend Scotch whisky. With the launch of Batch I a process began that will go on in perpetuity and continues with this example... Batch II.

Perpetuity Batch II Blended Scotch Whisky

Inspired by the concept of an infinity bottle, the blenders found some exemplary casks of Single Grain and Single Malt Scotch whisky, and carefully blended them together.

They will then add further casks of different whisky into the blend, before bottling half of that for future batches. This process will be repeated again, and again, and again, creating an increasingly complex blend assembled from multiple spirits.

Tasting notes:

• Grilled pineapple, cherry coke, Battenberg and jam with apricot, nutmeg and toast with cinnamon butter.

Serves:

• Highball
• 50ml Perpetuity
• Top up with soda water

The History:

In 15th century Leith, the monks of the order of St Anthony controlled the movement of wine through the port. The barrels would be taken from ships and stored in the Vaults, by the Kirkgate in central Leith. They employed a cooper called Henry Douglas to keep the casks in good working order.

When wine began to go missing, suspicion fell on Douglas, who denied all knowledge. A local hermit decided to investigate and accuse the crafty cooper. Henry Douglas looked scandalised. ‘Me?’ he said, ‘I don’t know a thing about it. I swear I know nothing. And if I’m telling a lie, may I never head this cask!’. 

The words had hardly left his mouth, when the cask he was working on fell apart into staves at his feet and he ran into the furthest parts of the great vaults, never to be seen again although the sound of him can sometimes be heard trying to finish his cursed cask. 

Our whisky endures a similar fate. We fill our blending vat with mature Scotch whisky, sourced from across the country, before bottling at least half. The vat is then replenished, before once again being half emptied, the cycle repeating forever. It is an infinite vat of Scotch, delivering intriguing, complex and exquisite whisky in perpetuity.

Priced at £45, the whisky is available at the Leith Export Co. website.