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Mars 17, 2022
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Some Irish for St Pat’s
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Yearly on March 17, all people’s celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, a.ok.a. St. Guinness, however though I have not actually checked that (my God, 20 years) I do not suppose we have already executed that on little WF. It is by no means too late, they are saying, however let’s do that randomly and see how far we’ll handle to swim…
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Drumshanbo ‘Basic Launch’ (43%, OB, Single Pot Nonetheless, Irish, +/-2020) 
From a correct new distillery, Shed Distillery, and created from a mashbill containing malted barley, barley, and oat. So it’s ‘single pot nonetheless’, however most likely not ‘pure pot nonetheless’. It’s a first on WF however certainly, there are a lot of as of late. Color: white wine. Nostril: contemporary butter unfold throughout contemporary bread, with whiffs of linseed oil within the background, then some somewhat smooth spices from the wooden, round smooth paprika maybe. Wee touches of apple and walnut peel. Very nice, elegant nostril. Mouth: somewhat wood-led, I used to be about so as to add ‘after all’, however all in all steadiness was achieved, due to a pleasant breadiness. Notes of quince tarte and sunflower oil and seeds. End: not that lengthy however properly spicy, with cloves nailed into an orange. Oaky/bready spiciness within the aftertaste, plus salmiak. Feedback: actually very advantageous, it is simply that the 43% vol. make it a tad weak. Ish.
SGP:451 – 81 factors. |
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Maybe a type of well-known pure pot nonetheless whiskeys…
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Redbreast 12 yo (40%, OB, single pot nonetheless, Irish, +/-2021) 
I have not tried the 12 since… maintain on, 2010! (WF 84 again then). And maintain on once more, this can be a ‘single pot nonetheless’ as properly, whereas I bear in mind older bottles used to show ‘pure pot nonetheless’. Oh properly, perhaps that is the identical, and perhaps oat is allowed. Color: gentle gold. Nostril: definitely ‘pure pot nonetheless’ so far as its type is worried, which I might describe as ‘gently metallic, barely cereally and delicately tropical’. In different phrases, mango and maracuja juice saved in a copper jar. I’ve to say this type has grown on me over time and I definitely get pleasure from these notes of eglantine tea, or rosehip. Or, in French, gratte-cul (which makes your backside itch – ha, the French.) Mouth: certain we would have most popular a better power however apart from that, it is a pretty whiskey certainly, smooth, with some acacia honey plus stewed peaches, orange salad with olive oil, a really smooth fudge, and a barely weaker center. The end comes a little bit early… End: and it is somewhat brief, however these flower jellies are glorious. Poppy jelly, smooth honey, redcurrant jam… Feedback: nice delicate juice, very recognisable, only a tad skinny on the palate. However it’s true that there’s a C/S model too… Rating unchanged, let’s assume.
SGP:530 – 84 factors. |
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Glendalough ‘Double Barrel’ (42%, OB, Irish, +/-2021) 
I consider that is grain whiskey. It has been completed in oloroso. Color: gentle gold. Nostril: extraordinarily humorous! New rubber boots, pine smoke, sage and tarragon, orange pores and skin, charcoal, bandages, rhubarb juice, then a rising graininess, with some candies, maybe lavender sweets… Certainly, nice enjoyable right here, that is completely not what I had anticipated. Mouth: precisely not what I had present in its nostril. That is a lot lighter, all on sweets, with simply curry-like touches and a few juniper from the wooden. Say 90% grain whisky plus 10% gin. I suppose it was that gin-ness that I had detected on the nostril. End: medium and much more on candy gin. Feedback: ought to we name this type a ginsky? Now I am completely certain there isn’t any gin inside (and neither is there any juniper). Good enjoyable anyway.
SGP:531 – 78 factors. |
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Since we had been having grain…
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Single Grain 10 yo ‘Batch 2’ (48%, W.D. O’Connell, bourbon & rye sequence, 2021)
This one was bottled for Germany, Luxembourg & the Netherlands (Europe, proper) and is alleged to be Cooley, so Greenore I suppose, which is Cooley’s grain if I am not mistaken. Color: white wine. Nostril: mashed turnips, moussaka, custard and marshmallows, then maize bread, barley syrup and pumpkin seed. Not too certain this time (different W.D. O’Connell having been extraordinarily convincing). Mouth: for grain freaks for certain. Thinnish distillate, all the remainder being excellent (vanilla, leaves, fruit peel, IPA). Saccharose. End: brief, completely cask-dominated, not in a nasty approach. Sugar syrup ‘aged’ in nice wooden. Feedback: I do know many mates will love this, it is simply not for this malt fanatic. Who’s the Irish alter-ego of David Beckham?
SGP:720 – 78 factors. |
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Single Irish Whiskey 19 yo (46%, W.D. O’Connell, PX Sequence, cask #144104, 348 bottles, 2021) 
A drunken little chicken with an odd accent instructed me this was from Cooley’s too. Color: gold. Nostril: large mangos, gueuze lambic, orange wine (it is fairly fermentary) and nectarines. Not a lot so as to add, besides that I completely love this. In my guide, solely 10% of the orange wines are value it, however when they’re, they’re (bravo, S.!) Mouth: fermenting tropical fruits (do you really want a listing) plus rooibos and earl gray. Tends to turn into a little bit leathery, having stated that, which will have been the PX cask. Orange wine made and grown in new French oak. End: somewhat lengthy and far spicier. No extra fruity extravaganza right here, this has turn into leafier however this child’s fruity coronary heart beats nonetheless. Feedback: a little bit difficult this time, it’s not a type of in-you-face fruity Cooleys and that is most likely the PX, which, I agree, sounds a little bit counterintuitive. They are saying one can’t change his personal nature. Nice drop, nonetheless.
SGP:561 – 85 factors. |
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We might strive one other potential fruit bomb by W.D. O’Connell …
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Single Malt Irish Whiskey 13 yo 2008/2021 (59%, W.D. O’Connell, oloroso sherry butt, 294 bottles)
This needs to be Bushmills. Nicely, it’s Bushmills. Color: gold. Nostril: class act. It’s firmer than the Cooley, with fruits that aren’t, this time, trumpeting in every single place whereas singing a few of the Pogues’ finest (laborious to do, I do know). Fruitcake, balsa wooden, inexperienced tea, then sawdust… I might suppose water will do it a lot good. With water: linseed oil and grist. Not a fruit bomb in any respect. Mouth (neat): oily arrival, with lemony barley on the energy of ten. A sense of unreduced limoncello. With water: no, no jams and no jellies, somewhat every kind of fruit peelings after which white peaches. End: lengthy, somewhat on barley, beer and cider. Feedback: the Colley was a lot fruitier, however high quality was the identical in my guide. Wonderful middle-aged Irish al pure (regardless of the finishings).
SGP:451 – 85 factors. |
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Maybe some Cooley once more…
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Cooley 20 yo 2001/2021 (52%, Liquid Treasures, for Singapore, barrel, cask #3145, 175 bottles) 
One other humorous label. Once we began this insanity, you’ll solely have discovered A. stags, B. pipers, C. thistle, D. nada, E. Mel Gibson, F. Jim Clarke or Jackie Stewart. Fairly. Color: gentle gold. Nostril: grapefruit, Chablis, ardour fruits, and repeat. Good. With water: weissbeer and grapefruit juice, plus sourdough. I am undecided you would do higher than this. Mouth (neat): fruit bomb alert. Pink bananas, papayas, mangos, ardour fruits and granny smith. From Chablis to Sancerre, or from chardonnay to sauvignon blanc. Immaculate palate. With water: a little bit rounder, sweeter… Don’t add a couple of drop of water, if I’ll. Aside from that, that is pure sauvignon blanc. End: lengthy, excellent. Feedback: we have lengthy been hoping some distinguished whiskey bottlers would add Rory Gallagher to their labels. Please! Sensible blues… I imply Irish malt anyway.
SGP:651 – 90 factors. |
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Holy Rory, what a Cooley! Let’s change type, with some Midleton mix…
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Midleton ‘Very Uncommon Launch 2013’ (40%, OB, mix, Eire)
We completely adored the 2022 the opposite day (WF 91) whereas some earlier vintages had been a little bit, say unnoticeable in our little guide. What’s nice is that Pernod/Irish Distillers have despatched samples of a few of their earlier vintages alongside that 2022, so, due to them. Imagine me, this can be very uncommon that some Distillers would mail you a few of their older stuff. Is not the business starting to see the sunshine? Color: gold. Nostril: appears like I have not been paying consideration all these years. Maybe due to these awful 40% vol…. Barley, melons, contemporary vanilla pods, peaches, acacia blossom, wee whiffs of wooden smoke… That is extraordinarily elegant and delicate, let’s simply hope it will not nosedive on our palates… Mouth: the primary drawback right here is that you would down litres of this. The arrival is ideal, somewhat on treasured fruits, apples, jujubes, maybe goji, additionally smooth honey, nougat… However the 40% begin to really feel after simply twenty seconds, really it is missing muscle. And but, what a luminous drop! End: brief, candy, honeyed. Pastries within the aftertaste. Feedback: I am certain I am not the one one to dream about these being bottled at 46% vol. Even perhaps inside I.D. Anyway, superb drop, even when the 2022 is on one other planet.
SGP:641 – 87 factors. |
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Let’s put an finish to this with some older malty fruit bombs, in case you please…
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Teeling 28 yo (43.1%, OB, for Rudder, Japan, rum cask, cask #10704, 2020)
Color: very pale white wine, maybe the palest muscadet ever. Nostril: as normal the rum does not really feel a lot, what we’re getting being somewhat a complete, beneficiant, luscious east-west fruit salad. Bananas, pink bananas, pears, greengages, papayas, guavas, vine peaches… In reality, that is simply completely superb. Mouth: identical. Puréed fruits, fruit salad, compotes and smoothies… Pears, peaches, bananas, and since we’re usually mentioning wine, we’ll say an previous Graves blanc from an incredible classic. What they now name Pessac-Léognan, whereas I might go so far as mentioning Laville, or H-B blanc. Alternatively, a very good Bouscaut Blanc would do the trick simply as properly. Rum? What rum? End: medium, magnificently fruity. Feedback: a real ‘wine malt’, I might have talked about Condrieu simply as properly, loopy viogniers, or why not mad sémillons? Each worlds are merging with these sorts of whiskies.
SGP:741 – 91 factors. |
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Below these circumstances, we’ll have extra rum…
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Teeling 25 yo (50.7%, OB, for Bresser & Timmer, rum cask, cask #100132, 2021) 
Let’s do that quick and fast. Color: white wine. Nostril: firmer, thicker as properly, greasier, oilier, extra on sunflower oil, maybe peanut paste, with a tiny metallic contact (do not forget that copper that we present in Redbreast 12?) then patchouli and mangos. With water: in direction of natural teas, rosehip as soon as extra, orange blossom water, bergamots… No no no, I’ve promised I might not point out combava anymore. Mouth (neat): certainly, a complete fruit salad and a mix of honeys. Undecided it wants any water however since we have already crammed the pipette… With water: extra citrus but. Grapefruit, citron, lemon caviar, combava (what?) … End: medium, immensely fruity, and since we have talked about wine earlier than, this time we’ll say small-grain muscat. Feedback: as candy as a Carole King track.
SGP:741 – 89 factors. |
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That is it, blissful St. Pat’s!
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 Verify the index of all Irish we have tasted to this point
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