Heart Cut Pocket Pours

Valentine’s seems a fitting time to explore drams from the fabulous indie bottling team – The Heart Cut. The 2025 Whisky Show is responsible for introducing us to them – and it was love at first pour!

We were so impressed that we walked out with 3 bottles, picked up a 4th just after the show, then decided to add another 3 bottles for our 2027 Bombay Malt & Cigar / Whisky Ladies‘joint tasting.

You would think that would be enough, right? Nope! We simply couldn’t resist adding a quartet of “pocket pours”!

The Heart Cut x — BARLEY English Blended Malt Whisky 46% – GBP 5
The Heart Cut #04 – M&H (26/02/2019 – 26/03/2023) Pomegranate Wine Cask 57% GBP 6
The Heart Cut #15 – Starward (27/08/2018 – 15/10/2024) Fresh Red Wine Barrique – French Oak 54% GBP 6.76
The Heart Cut #18 – Thomson (07/08/2019 – 25/03/2025) Ex-Bourbon 50.8% GBP 7.25

My tasting companion and I sampled these on a lazy evening in Kalote – rural Maharashtra. With the sound of crickets and frogs croaking, punctuated by the occasional bark fest from our dogs and our neighbours, we thoroughly enjoyed our exploration.

A few drops remained, so I brought them back to Mumbai to taste this week with another Whisky Lady.

The links above provide an amalgam of impressions about these Pocket Pours…

And if this isn’t enough… check out the notes for our explorations at the 2025 Whisky Show! It was a bit of an around-the-world tour! From single malts to rye and spirited experiments! The casks reflected a wonderfully eclectic range – from wet red wines to ex-Islay, 250+ year old European oak to new American oak. And the biggest surprise? A Californian Ale Cask! Here are the expressions we experienced: