Cask No. 001

Twenty-seven years. One cask.

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Clear as water. Sharp as a blade.

It begins here. Then it waits.

Flame gives the wood its voice.

Char level three. Then the fire goes out.

Nothing happens here. That is the work.

Twenty-seven winters in the dark.

The seasons do the turning.

Summer draws it into the wood. Winter gives it back.

Two percent a year, gone to the air.

The angels take their share.

Twenty-seven years, in the light at last.

This is what the waiting was for.

Cask No. 001, an unlabelled dark-glass bottle

Cask No. 001 · the edition

Eighty-eight bottles.

There will not be more.

Filled Spoken for Held for you · No. 41
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The cask papers

Filled
14 May 1999
Oak
Quercus robur, air-dried three years
Char
Level three
Warehouse
No. 2, third rack, north wall
Years in wood
Twenty-seven
The angels' share
Two fifths, gone to the air
Yield
Eighty-eight bottles

Cask No. 002 is already in the dark.