Shirley bucket whisky is undoubtedly the most wonderful part of whisky. Shirley bucket whisky can always give people a Christmas atmosphere, desserts, spices, hot red wine, warm and sweet. Compared with bourbon barrel whisky, high-quality Shirley barrel whisky has richer and gorgeous flavor, deeper and elegant temperament, and of course, the price is more expensive.

Friends who have just come into contact with whisky are often at a loss about the various barrel types of whisky. Let's first have a general understanding of Shirley barrels. To understand Shirley bucket, we need to know what Shirley wine is. Shirley is a kind of fortified wine produced in Jerez region in southern Spain. It is called fortified wine because it will be fortified with brandy with a wine precision of 76% - 78% before being matured in barrels, which will improve the wine precision to about 15% - 20%. I haven't drunk sherry, but according to my friends' description, its taste is between rice wine and Jizhi syrup.

English people love sherry. The earliest record of drinking Sherry in Britain can be traced back to 1548. Shakespeare once called Sherry "the Spanish sunshine in a bottle". Shirley has been popular all over Britain since the 18th century. At that time, most Sherry wine would be put into new oak barrels and transported from Spain to Britain by ship. Due to the large number, some of the sherry wine barrels went to the whisky distillery at that time. The early Scottish whisky distilleries were not large-scale, and the oak barrels used were all local materials. Whichever was cheap, rum barrels and red wine barrels were used.

Soon, wineries and whisky blenders found that this kind of aged Sherry barrel whisky had the best taste. Since then, this Shirley transport barrel has been widely used by Scottish whisky distillery. So the traditional Sherry barrels used in Scotch Whisky are not oak barrels used to ripen sherry, but oak barrels used to transport sherry.