Overview: Dingle Single Malt Whiskey

We’ve been preserving tabs on Eire’s Dingle Distillery since 2019. Whereas we haven’t been aware of your complete development of their house-distilled single malt whisky, Chris had the chance to discover each Batch 3 and Batch 4 a number of years again. These batched expressions, which every relied on a special mixture of cask varieties, seem like taking a again seat for the second to make approach for the distillery’s first core expression, which formally entered the American market in December 2022. Dingle Single Malt Whiskey is produced solely on the Dingle Distillery, a uncommon distinction amongst smaller Irish distillers lots of whom nonetheless depend on sourced product. Whereas the primary restricted run Dingle batches that we encountered each utilized some Port cask growing old, this expression has been aged in a mixture of first-fill ex-bourbon (39%) and ex-Pedro Ximenez sherry (61%) casks for a good six to seven years. Let’s see how this new Dingle flagship gala’s, lets?

It’s surprisingly vibrant, even for a mode of whiskey that may typically be brilliant and vigorous. The aroma is recent with honeyed malts and a little bit of oatmeal cookie, however it’s the outsized fruit notes that actually steal the present with candy-sweet components of Maraschino cherry, lime zest, and even a bit strawberry. A little bit of butterscotch offers the entire thing a pleasantly creamy edge. On the palate, the fruit notes initially have a tendency towards tart lemon and even a bit stone fruit earlier than providing up extra candy malts, baked apple, and a delicate mixture of baking spice and vanilla bean. Mild bodied and impressively approachable, it’s additionally a bit restrained with a lot of the complexity delivered up entrance and dissolved into a simple end showcasing delicate notes of darkish raisin and cinnamon sugar. For Dingle’s first mass market providing, there’s lots to admire.

92.6 proof

B+ / $100 / dingledistillery.ie [BUY IT NOW FROM THE WHISKY EXCHANGE]

Dingle Single Malt Whiskey

$100

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Drew Beard

Drew Beard is Assistant Editor and Social Media Supervisor for Drinkhacker. He has studied and written about beer, whisk(e)y, and different spirits since he first began consuming them, incomes a number of booze-related advantage badges alongside the best way, together with Licensed Specialist in Spirits and Government Bourbon Steward. A recovering Federal authorities worker, he’s blissful to have lastly discovered a profession the place it’s acceptable to drink on the job.