Waterford Peated Ballybannon 1.1

Description

Brand: Waterford
Category: Whisky
Type: Single Malt
Region: Ireland
Alcohol: 50% alc/vol
We selected two Single Farm Origin barleys – with distinctive terroirs – to see if those naturally occurring flavours shone through or were in fact dominated by peat. Finding the right quality Irish
peat was a challenge but the greatest problem of all was there were no operational kilns left in Ireland; the knowledge had been forgotten. We needed Scottish help. While the peating levels (phenols expressed as parts per million) are similar to famous Islay whiskies such as Port Charlotte and Ardbeg and more than Bowmore or Lagavulin, the extraordinary result is distinctly different with the intensity of Ireland’s barley shining through the encompassing envelope of refined peatiness.
There are only 11,500 bottles available globally, and only 500 of these are available in South Africa.