Found North Hell Diver 17 Years Cask Strength Whisky 750ml

2025 Release

With Hell Diver 2025, we adjusted the initial blend, forming a sturdier foundation that could withstand the sweet and dry resonance of Pedro Ximénez. This yielded more obliging profiles amongst our finished casks. We also reduced the number of new wood barrels in favor of Cognac casks to cultivate orchard fruits and tempered oak tannins. Easier cask integration during the reblending stage unlocked a richer, creamier fruit profile across the mid-palate and finish. 

While we lost fewer casks and achieved greater harmony in the final reblend, Hell Diver 2025 retained the rapturous red fruit notes and unfettered baking spices that define Hell Diver.

Flavor Notes

Close your eyes and inhale. Dense aromatics of earthy baking spice, sweet wood phenols and creamy herbal notes abound. Batch 011 walks you through an ancient forest of pinewood and vanilla beans. Each step deeper into the woodlands gives a distinct impression of honeycomb, charred tree sap and lychee tea. Each breath presents a swirl of cedar, blackberry currant and maple candy.

The nose is a vermilion storm cloud, echoing an ominous rumble of red velvet cake, hazelnut and brandied chocolate cherry. It looms in the glass, pulsating crimson lightning, each strike illuminates the cloud with baked brown sugar, galvanic bursts of sweetened chai, a nimbus of raspberry infused honey and cara cara marmalade.

The landing is like a diving loon. Chaos above, calm below, it glides unperturbed across the palate, leaving toasted caramel in its wake and a dusting of ruby chocolate over creamy mocha. The maelstrom above displays sweet secondary earth tones, reverberating mint, camellia sinensis and vanilla glacé. All the while, our Hell Diver navigates the undercurrents, a spiral of strawberry conserva, canela-coated Brazil nuts and a twining of toffee.

The finish approaches. The bird breaches. The storm crescendos as its nutmeg, white tea and French wafer coalesce. A final flush of red comice pear flashes bright before its silken descent into an everlasting swirl of maple, walnut and cocoa powder.

ABV: 56.2%