Content with the tag: sherry

Bowmore 12 Years

This is a new pack­ag­ing of the islay’s ‘medium-peated’ malt. It has a clear iodine char­ac­ter with lots of pep­per and yet the malt is bal­anced and smooth as well as smoky.

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Laphroaig 25 YO

Here’s the new large batch Laphroaig, unex­pect­edly bot­tled at 40%. A bit strange when you know the dif­fer­ence that just 3 more per­cents can make to the reg­u­lar 10yo. This is a very mel­low taste with pretty del­i­cate peat, some…

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Tyrconnell 10yo, sherry finish

This is a sin­gle malt from the Coo­ley dis­tillery bot­tled at a strength of 46%. The whisky is a bit darker as has been lay­ing 10YO on spe­cial sherry casks.

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Ardbeg Uigeadail

A fine drop of Ard­beg bot­tled at cask strength.It‘s an earthy whisky with a bit of spice — a mar­riage of Ard­beg from bour­bon bar­rel and sherry butt which gives a sweet and smokey fin­ish to this malt at 54.2%.…

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Edradour 1984, 22 YO, Pedro Ximinez Finish

This bot­tle is bot­tled at 22 years old at nat­ural cask strength. It’s lit­tle unusual and very sweet, some peo­ple love this dram, some peo­ple hate it! Lim­ited to to about 700 bot­tles. This whisky has been matured for six…

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Laphroaig 25 YO, Cask Strength

This is a new cask-strength bot­tling of Laphroaig 25yo. The whisky is a very dif­fer­ent beast to the old 25yo. It has a rich and smoul­der­ing taste, with a big coal hit and a lin­ger­ing sea­weed char­ac­ter. Lovely stuff

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Bunnahabhain 1986, 21YO, Islay Fest 2008

A briny, sweet tang about the nose, like a sea­wa­ter foun­tain. Well bal­anced on the tongue, a good swal­low with lin­ger­ing salt. This is Bunnahabhain’s bot­tling for the 2008 Islay Fes­ti­val is a vat­ting of two Span­ish oak sherry hogsheads…

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Green Spot

A fab­u­lous pure pot­still whiskey, exalted by con­nois­seurs as one of the finest Irish whiskeys avail­able. Vibrant and very char­ac­ter­ful, Green Spot must be tried by seri­ous fans of Irish Whiskey.

Green Spot is a pure pot still Irish whiskey,…

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Redbreast 12 Year old

Beau­ti­fully bal­anced pure pot still Irish Whiskey. In the view of many con­nois­seurs, the finest Irish whiskey avail­able. “…an aston­ish­ing expe­ri­ence” 9/10 Jim Mur­ray in Whisky Magazine.

Nose: Clean, fresh. Hint of lin­seed. Nuts. Cake.
Palate: By far the

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Jameson 12 Year old / Special Reserve

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,

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