Wolfburn Masterclass at The Oak Barrel, Sydney, May 30th 2019: Whisky #2 Nose: A similar nose to the Northland expression - fruity and floral but substituting a sherry and dark fruit note for the musky brine. Well integrated, rounded and creamy with touches of marmalade, malt and brine. The sherry stays well controlled and acts more like a spice for the fruity distillate rather than striding to centre stage. Palate: A smoother, silkier and sweeter arrival than the Northland. The Wolfburn spicy burst is again present but here it is buffered by sherry. The texture is a little more rounded and overall this is less vibrantly bright than the all-quarter cask Northland. There is a little brine towards the conclusion. Finish: Medium. Spicy sweet with a sweet fruity and umami touch, and tailing off into an ever so faintly salt/sweet cereal finish. The maturation here is in a combination of 1st-fill ex-bourbon barrels and 1st-fill oloroso hogsheads. (Note - this is different to the cask regime stated in the description on this site, but it's correct. There is no quarter-cask component in contemporary Aurora). The whiskies are matured separately and then married in a ratio of 80% bourbon to 20% sherry. The more flavourful and active cask maturation gives this whisky a larger and fruiter presence, and to me it was different but equal in quality to the Northland expression. Northland allows the excellent Wolfburn new-make to be seen in all its naked glory, whereas here the sherry presence and the richness of the 1st-fill casks clothes the new make in sophisticated raiment. "Good" : 84/100 (3.75 stars)