Irish Whiskey reviews

Review is from a 50ml sample kindly provided by @RianC (who's username I type so often it now comes up on the predictive text on my phone!).I drank this about a month ago made some notes and just didn't…

There are exceptions to every rule and sometimes our intuitions are wrong. I rarely purchase whiskies bottled at 40% abv, since many tend to be mixers or "entry-level" offerings that don't interest me…

This one has been in my cabinet for a few years now, thankfully I bought it just before the LCBO boosted the price up to the current $80. I bring this up because I feel like the place it held in my…

SMWS 51.12 "Pastries & Sweet Treats" Bushmills Distillery 15yrs old Distilled 22nd May 2002 58.9% ABVI’ve doubled down on tackling my sample box of late, I’ve had success by putting my sessions together…

Even the most mundane whisky can have a story.This one begins in January 2010. My father had been diagnosed with cancer the year before, and he developed a complication from the treatment. He went to…

I have limited experience with Irish whiskey. It’s probably because many commonly available expressions are bottled at 40% and I tend to reach for something with a higher ABV. Lately I’ve started to…

I've come to enjoy the taste of pot still Irish quite a lot but it's not something I often turn to. I really should rectify that as, whilst I don't always find them to be completely absorbing, they are…

My experience with Irish Single Pot Still has been limited to various Redbreast expressions. Let’s see how this one stacks up.**Tasting Notes*** Nose (undiluted): almost subdued at first. With time,…

This 24 years old Teeling is part of the oldest stocks that the Teeling brothers were able to ‘liberate’ from the old Cooley stocks. The whisky first matured in former bourbon casks and then got a finish…

I confess, I tried this one before, a little over two years ago. At a Teeling tasting in my neck of the woods. I remember it vividly as I posted a photos of this bottle on social media, while it was some…