ABV: 40 %
Origin: Ireland
Type: Blended
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 1
Impression: 2/5

Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and fruity. At first there’s a bit hit of vanilla and short bread cookies with side notes of grain spirit and fruits. There are bananas, red apples and a squeeze of orange. Sweet liquorice can be found but are not one of the main features. There’s a nice balance between the sweetness and the fruits which makes it very dessert-like and easy to approach. There’s also a creamy feeling overall. This is a very good nose. The grain spirit note brings it down a notch.

Mouth: It starts out with a bready note and a slight spicyness. The fruitiness is fresher and less sweet and brings more citrus notes and apples than bananas, even though they still exist within. There are still notes of vanilla. It’s less sweet than on the nose and a bitter note are starting to create some background noise. It really doesn’t seem to fit in but it does give another dimension to an otherwise quite simple experience. There’s a good portion of maltiness and the grain spirit notes are pushed down in the order, which is a very good thing.

Finish: There’s an increase in the fruitiness at the start of the transition. The malty, bready center also return but it starts to fall apart quite soon. The fruitiness once again become banana forward with citrus notes in the back together with the bitter note. It soon shifts and becomes very oaky. It’s a quite spicy and aggressive new oak which isn’t all that pleasant. After a while it just feels like chewing on raw oak. This is a decent whisky for the premises. The oak infusion helps it along in one end, but makes it hard to endure in the other.

Additional information
This is a blended irish whiskey aged for an undisclosed time in american oak casks.

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