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Greenore 10 Year Old Single Cask (for Belgium)

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Greenore 10 Year Old Single Cask (for Belgium)

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  • Brand: Greenore
  • Bottler: Unknown
  • ABV: 52.9%
  • Age: 10 year old

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@markjedi1
Greenore 10 Year Old Single Cask (for Belgium)

Greenore is the single grain label of the Irish Cooley distillery. People who know me, know that I have a soft spot for this whiskey. I already tasted the 6 Year Old, 8 Year Old (including the first batch), 15 Year Old and 18 Year Old and was able to secure one of the few bottles of the 19 Year Old Single Cask that was bottled exclusively for The Loop (the whisky shop in Dublin’s airport). So when I found out that a 10 Year Old Single Cask (cask 87) would be bottled for Belgium, I was first in line to pick up a bottle.

The nose is rife with honey and banana, vanilla ice with whipped cream, milk chocolate, corn on the cob and pencil shavings. Something greasy too. Nice, but rather weak, actually. The alcohol created a mildly annoying diversion.

Slightly grassy, it caresses the tongue. Immediately you have to take shelter for a bomb of vanilla, sweet corn, caramel and banana. Very, very sweet with a nice helping of spices, creating quite the bite. A bitter oak lining as well. It delivers more than the nose promised, thankfully.

The finish, while not exactly short, offers nothing new, but that’s quite alright.

This is a nice Greenore with a bit of sentimental value (being bottled for Belgium and all), but for me, the 18 Year Old remains the best of the range.

@WhiskyNotes

Greenore, the Irish grain distillery run by Cooley, released a 10 year-old single cask bottled at cask strength. It is only available in Belgium.

Greenore 10 yo (52,9%, OB 2011 for Belgium, cask #87, 394 btl.)

Nose: typical banana ice cream aroma (banana, whipped cream and vanilla) with hints of Pïsang Ambon or chocolates with banana filling. Nice and quite unique. There’s also a honey coating and a corn sweetness that you don’t find in many other grain whiskies. A little coconut. Certainly attractive but I feel it doesn’t speak loud enough – underneath the alcohol the aromas are quite soft and fluffy. Mouth: sweet vanilla with freshly cut wood kicking in. Banana. Coconut milk. Hints of barley and caramel. Again quite creamy although there’s a slightly spirity bite towards the end (a drop of water helps). Finish: medium length, with dark sugar and a little Malibu.

A nice expression of this Irish single grain, which reminded me of certain rums. I like the nose better than the palate. Around € 50.

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