Jameson 12 Year old / Special Reserve

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For­merly known as ‘1780’ in ref­er­ence to the year the orig­i­nal Jame­son dis­tillery in Bow Street, Dublin, was founded, this has recently been relaunched as ‘Spe­cial Reserve’. A smooth, spicy, sweet potstill-based blend.

Jame­son 12 Year Old Spe­cial Reserve, with its robust full bod­ied flavour, is a warm wel­com­ing hand­shake into the Reserves whiskey fam­ily. Orig­i­nally known as ‘1780’ after the year of foun­da­tion of the Jame­son dis­tillery in Dublin’s Bow Street, it was renamed in 2002 to reflect its min­i­mum 12 years of matur­ing in bour­bon and most delec­tably in oloroso sherry casks.

With its infu­sion of pot still with sherry casks, these brush strokes of dis­till­ing artistry make it the best known and most pop­u­lar aged Jame­son Reserve for any dis­cern­ing palate.

Jame­son 12 Year Old Spe­cial Reserve is a whiskey of great char­ac­ter with com­plex flavours of toasted wood, spice and sherry that are superbly mel­lowed. Its exquis­ite taste cel­e­brates the endur­ing her­itage of great Jame­son whiskeys which began in 1780.

Producer’s Tast­ing Notes