![]() ![]() Vanilla sweetness and treacle toffee combine with the nuttiness of toasted oak. Nose: A mix of exotic fruits and red berries, complemented by fresh herbs and wood spices.Official tasting notes for this new Redbreast are as follows. It will initially be available starting this month in 11 global markets for around $500 USD. Produced in limited quantities on an ongoing basis, Redbreast 27 Year Old is bottled at 54.6% ABV. ![]() “Nearly three decades in the making, we are incredibly proud to present Redbreast 27 Year Old – a cask strength Redbreast expression that is a joy to behold in each and every sip.” This time, we wanted to push the boundaries and yet create an expression that would seamlessly take its place at the head of the family. ![]() “In creating this whiskey, Dave and I drew on our experience of working with sherry and other wine casks over the years as we have evolved the range. “It gives us great pleasure to reveal the latest member of the Redbreast Irish Whiskey family,” said Leighton in a prepared statement. The ruby port barrels impart fleshy fruit characteristics with notes of toasted oak which complements the rich and robust style of the distillate.” “After sourcing ruby port casks, the masters filled them with pot still distillate before leaving them to mature, then combined them with whiskey aged in bourbon and sherry barrels. The new Redbreast 27 Year Old, according to those behind it, spent over two and half decades aging under the “watchful eyes of the team at Midleton distillery,” which includes Master Blender Billy Leighton and Blender Dave McCabe.” For over 30 years, said team “travelled to the Douro Valley in Portugal, where port has been produced for two thousand years, to discover the finest caves in the region in a quest to provide drinkers with a truly unique taste experience. Joining those now is a new release in the form of a 27 year old that’s been partially matured “in ruby port barrels from Portugal’s Douro Valley to bring a new complexity and depth to the Redbreast collection.” The permanent line up of this brand currently includes Redbreast Lustau, regular 12 YO and 12 YO cask strength, 15 and 21 year old offerings. The Redbreast single pot still Irish whiskey brand is a popular part of the larger Irish Distillers/Pernod Ricard Irish whiskey portfolio. Astounding uisce beatha (water of life) indeed. It's a single pot still whiskey, initially aged in bourbon casks for 6 years, before being moved over to a ruby Port pipe (which was seasoned with a variety of wines before being further seasoned with ruby Port) to age for another 22 years. One of two releases from Midleton's experimental Method and Madness range - and it should be stunning. The expression, which includes three single cask offerings, is bottled without chill filtration and ranges from 51.3%, 51.8% and 52.5% abv. The rare single cask release has developed a “full deep grain character” and on the palate notes of “honey, juicy mango and ripe melon with an endless dark wood and spicy finish”. ![]() The limited edition Single Grain Irish Whiskey 31 Year Old has been matured in an ex-Bourbon cask for 31 years. M&M is only distributed across Ireland, the U.K. From Irish Distillers experimental division - Method & Madness. ![]()
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