Glendalough Pot Still

Description

Brand: Glendalough
Category: Whisky
Type: Irish Potstill
Region: Ireland
Strength: 43% alc/vol

It’s made from a 1:2 mashbill of malted and unmalted Irish barley, and obviously distilled in a pot still – the whiskey wasn’t distilled by Glendalough, though it was distilled to their specification by an unnamed distillery. It’s matured in bourbon casks and then finished for a year in Irish virgin oak casks, made from sustainably felled 130 year old trees from the forests surrounding the distiller.

Tasting notes:
Nose: Raw malt aromas, with tannic oak, creamy vanilla notes and some oak char, with a wave of cinnamon spice.
Palate: Crystallised ginger and candied citrus, banana custard and maple syrup, leading into green oak and dried herbs, aromatic clove and more creamy vanilla, alongside some red berries and toasted oak.