Egan’s Legacy Reserve Quantity IV 18 Years Single Malt Irish Whiskey Overview

Additional aged and completed in ex-Moscatel casks, the Egan’s Legacy Reserve Quantity IV 18 Years Single Malt Irish Whiskey will not be the type of Irish Whiskey you see every single day. Partially due to the age, however largely due to the casks.

Within the pantheon of whisky ending casks, Moscatel isn’t precisely what you’d name widespread. Actually, I can solely consider three others off the highest of my head and all three have been restricted releases or single casks. One from Kavlan, one out of Laphroaig and one out of Bunnahabhain. All three have been good with the Laphroaig and Kavalon being nice. Although the one factor all of them had in widespread is that they made me wish to see extra whiskies use these underappreciated casks.

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Egan’s Legacy Reserve Quantity IV 18 Years Single Malt Irish Whiskey – Particulars and Tasting Notes

Whiskey Particulars

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Type: Single Malt (Irish)
Area: Eire
Distiller: Undisclosed (West Cork)

Mash Invoice: 100% Malted Barley
Cask: ex-Bourbon, ex-Moscatel
Age: 18 Years
ABV: 46%

Batch: IV

Egan’s Legacy Reserve Quantity IV 18 Years Single Malt Irish Whiskey Value: $200*

Associated Whiskey

Teeling Revival Quantity IV Muscat Cask 15 Years
Bushmills 25 Years Marsala Cask
Celtic Cask 28 Fiche a Hocht
Celtic Cask 27 Fiche a Seacht
Bushmills 21

Egan’s Legacy Reserve Quantity IV 18 Years Single Malt Irish WhiskeyTasting Notes

EYE
Pinkish copper

NOSE
Olde tyme strawberry taffy, malt, creamy vanilla and touches of baking spice, Honey Nut Cheerios and oak.

Wealthy and stylish the aroma rolls lazily out of the glass.

PALATE
Olde tyme strawberry taffy, creamy vanilla, cinnamon, malty graham, dried sultanas, banana and a few bits of cocoa and oak.

Bolder and hotter than the aroma with much more fruity aspects exhibiting up.

FINISH
Medium-long -> Fruity sweetness, malt, grainy oak and cinnamon and waxy vanilla.

BALANCE, BODY and FEEL
Properly balanced, medium-full physique and a heat slick really feel.

Egan’s Legacy Reserve Quantity IV 18 Years Single Malt Irish Whiskey- Total Ideas and Rating

From aroma to palate to complete, it is a dynamic whiskey that isn’t massive and brutal however nonetheless has a pleasant sense of boldness to it. It’s refined and stylish with delicate orchard and tropical nuances that peek out whilst you’re experiencing it however at no level is it a light-weight or easy whiskey.

Enjoyable and thrilling, that is the type of Irish Whiskey that must be available in the market extra. The type that reveals the complexity and sweetness that may come from nicely matured, and nicely completed, Irish single malts. This can be a gem.

SCORE: 4.5/5 (excellent, extremely advisable ~ A- | 90-93)

*Disclosure: The pattern/bottle for this Irish Single Malt overview was graciously despatched to me by the corporate with out obligation. The views, opinions, and tasting notes are 100% my very own.