Irish Whiskey reviews

I do miss the Whisky Fair in Limburg, Germany. Both in 2020 and this year, corona messes things up, but I have warm memories of 2019. Not in the least because of this wonderful Irish whiskey that was…

The German company The Whisky Agency bottled a cask of Irish whiskey in 2017 for Komplex Whiskey & Hasse². Who can make heads or tails of that? The the label bursts in simplicity, but it is of course the…

The Founder’s Reserve from The Irishman is a single cask, albeit cut to 46%. The whiskey, a blend by the way, was finished on a Caribbean cask. That means rum of course. From Santa Lucia if you really…

The Walsh Whiskey Distillery was recently rechristened Royal Oak Distillery. The distillery came about with the fortune that was made, and still being made, with the popular whiskey The Irishman. Today…

Michael Walsh is the youngest Master Distiller in Ireland. He works hard every day to distill whiskey at Boann, but for now they have to make do with whiskey bought elsewhere until their own spirit has…

The Boann Distillery is a new Irish one, built in 2017. They only started distilling in 2019, so what they are putting out today is so-called sourced whiskey. At first I will try this 5 years old Double…

I confess, I have no idea what Mizen Head means, but this Irish single malt was released by West Cork Distillers. It was matured on bourbon casks and then got a finish on bodega sherry casks. Sweet,…

When The Nectar, a famous Belgian importer, selects a single cask to have bottled in their name, we expect it to be good. The fact that it was bottled at cask strength already makes my heart leap. This…

I have not yet tried a lot of whiskey from West Cork and what I have tried so far has been okay-ish at best. I have to confess that for this bourbon cask – a blend by the way – my expectations are low…

If you're expecting a slight variation on the regular Writer's Tears blend, think again. This is a single malt, not a malt/pot still blend, matured entirely in Oloroso casks. Really not much in common…