Williamsbirne Spezial geräuchertes Eichenfass

A pure natural product: Williams pears from the Sammet family’s own orchards are picked by hand at the ideal ripeness, left to ripen further, mashed at low speed and fermented slowly and cool. The mash is distilled by distiller and spirits sommelier Martin Sammet in the copper pot still, the way his family has done it for generations. The heart of the run is brought down to cask strength with soft water from an old spring in the Löwenstein hills and filled into a small, old, smoked oak cask. After several months, dried pieces of Williams pear from the same harvest go into the cask. Over months the fruit of the dried pears melds with the smoky cask-aged brandy into a long finish, the smoke underlining the fruit with a certain saltiness. The cuvée is filtered only gently, so a small deposit can form, as in a good old wine. The 2019 bottling, 40 % vol, 0.35 l.