Irish Whiskey reviews

Cracked open a bottle of the stuff last night to, uh, prep for St. Patrick's day. New bottle, but multiple drams.Nose: Rich, creamy vanilla, and some sweet brown spices (cardamom, cinnamon, all-spice)…

Nose: light, mellow, slightly fruity, earthy. The peat plays peek-a-boo: there one second, gone the next.Taste: very thin, insubstantial body. Fruity sweetness is headed off by a massive bitter surge.…

About a bajillion years ago, in 1887, there were 28 distilleries in Ireland, and only one did not produce single pot still whiskey. Today it's almost the reverse - Midleton is the one Irish distiller …

Tullamore Dew got its name not from morning dew but from the man whose influence on this distillery was invaluable: Daniel Edmond Williams. The owners, William Grants & Sons, recently received permission…

Well folks, it's March 16th and tomorrow is that hallowed St. Paddy's Day. I last reviewed a Tullamore Dew 12, and so keeping with the theme, here is a Bushmills I've had around here for almost a year…

Hot Irishman, a company in Carlow (Ireland), lead by Bernard Walsh, has a portfolio that contains the Irishman Single Malt, the Irishman 70 Superior Irish Whiskey, but also a cream liqueur, a mulled wine…

As we lead up to St. Patrick's Day, it's time to look at an Irish whisky (I will do some more next week). Tullamore Dew gets it's name from a) the town of Tullamore and b) D. E. Williams, whose family…