Found North Launches Hover Hawk First Flight
Found North has announced the launch of Found North Hover Hawk First Flight, the third whisky in its High Altitude Collection.
Found North Hover Hawk began as a blend of 22, 23, 24 and 27 year old corn and 15 and 18 year old rye components. That blend was then finished in Moscatel and New American Oak casks for four months. Hover Hawk has a final grain composition of 66% Corn, 29% Wheat, and 5% Malted Barley and is bottled non chill-filtered, with no additives, and of natural color at a cask strength of 61.6% ABV (123.2 proof) and is limited to 4,536 bottles.
Official tasting notes for Found North Hover Hawk First Flight follow:
The nose is like fresh dew catching the morning sun after a midnight shower, each drop a prism refracting flavor across an open field of fragrant fruit notes, flashing a full spectrum of green apple, golden raisins, peach jam and sweet lemon pie. Secondary notes of toasted caramel dance on the wind, wafting whiffs of burnt brown sugar and maple candy. Hover Hawk spins out a cascade of fruit notes, stringing together vanilla wafer, blackberry currant and cinnamon pound cake. The nose begs you to drink the whisky.
Like the crack of canvas as a sail catches a westerlies wind, the palate corrals the unbridled flavors, setting a course. The flush of white fruit, citrus and blackberry on the nose land thick and viscous, presenting the melting fruity texture of a perfectly ripe golden kiwi and the mouth-watering residual sweetness of cantaloupe. This combination of viscosity and sweetness coats the palate, creating an underlying foundation starting in the mid-palate and lingering throughout the finish. The bloom of honey and vanilla manifests in harmony with a crackling coriander, crescendoing into a full-bodied spice cake covered in brown butter cream. The bedrock of sweetness sustains itself, while the spice ebbs, replaced by a dense chocolate and tannin that twist around the endless jammy finish, a lingering decadence.
Found North Hover Hawk First Flight is available in very limited quantities in-stores across the country for a suggested retail price of $159.99.
Source: Found North.