Filey Bay Port Finish Batch #1 marks a new style for Spirit of Yorkshire Distillery's unique Single Malt. As usual for their house style, the whisky is initially matured in ex-Bourbon barrels for more than three years, bringing sweetness and spice. But then their attention turns to Portugal, and the spirit is re-racked into ex-Ruby Port pipes. Ruby Port has a fresher fruit style than Tawny, so this finishing takes Filey Bay's classic peach yoghurt, apricot, fig jam, poached pear, orange blossom, vanilla and lemon barley sugar character, and layers in Black Forest gateau, blackberry, red wine and peppery spice. There's going to be huge demand for this one because the release was held back to give it a little more time in the Port barrels. And also because only 3,300 bottles were made. There can't be many counties with a stronger spirit and sense of identity than Yorkshire. Now it has its very own Single Malt Whisky, made from field to bottle in Yorkshire, using 100% homegrown barley. The Spirit of Yorkshire Distillery can be found in the village of Hunmanby, just a few miles from Filey Bay on the Yorkshire coast. It's the county's first ever Single Malt Whisky producer and they do things properly from grain to glass, but definitely their own way. But they did get a little help from the late, great Dr Jim Swan, a celebrated whisky maker who was described as"the Einstein of whisky"and who was instrumental in setting up a raft of other great distilleries, including: Nc'nean, Cotswolds, Kavalan, Penderyn, Kilchoman, Victoria Caledonian and Milk&Honey. He helped them ensure that they were making something unique that reflected the local area, not just a carbon copy of Scotch. The barley is grown in Hunmanby on the family farm, so you can't get much more local and hands on than that. The water is drawn through chalk from deep beneath the Yorkshire Wolds. One of the only things they bring in from outside the county is the oak, for which they source the finest barrels from around the world. The bottles are embossed with a gannet, a fearless bird that has flourished in this part of Yorkshire. We think that's kind of fitting because it also perfectly describes the way we hungrily gobble down each new Filey Bay outturn.£10.29 per 100.00ml