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Currach Single Malt Irish Whiskey Review

Currach Single Malt Irish Whiskey – Atlantic Kombu Seaweed Cask

I was lucky enough to be one of the first people to taste this Irish Whiskey before it’s general release. Stephen Randall hand delivered 50 taster samples to some close friends and Irish Whiskey Bloggers for a Tweet Tasting on “DavesWhiskey” #SundayNightSup – This whiskey is unique, complex, interesting and overall delicious.

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Glendalough 13 Year Old Mizunara Single Malt Whiskey Review

Glendalough 13 Year Old Mizunara Single Malt Whiskey

The winner of World Best Irish Whiskey, was the first Irish Whiskey released with a Japanese minuzara finish. Extremely rare, and expensive, virgin Japanese mizunara, comes from Hokkaido, the rugged most northern island of Japan. The mizunara puncheon amplifies much of what is already there while layering on more vanilla smoothness, sandalwood notes and even a little coconut, or gorse flower if you’re from our neck of the woods. This is a whiskey that’s hard to make. It is unique in terms of what is being done with Irish whiskey and it is very limited. This is one to savour.

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Glendalough Pot Still Irish Whiskey Review

Glendalough is a Unique Pot Still Irish Whiskey Finished in Irish Oak from the Wicklow Mountains Glendalough Pot Still is technically a Single Pot Still finished for roughly a year in the rarest of all casks, virgin Irish oak. This is a single cask whiskey that lets everyone enjoy the flavours of Irish oak at […]

Teeling Wonders Of Wood Cherry Wood Irish Whiskey Review

A Teeling 15 Year Single Malt Aged in a Virgin Cherry Wood Single Cask The second release in Teeling’s series of Wonder of Wood bottlings is a 15 Year Single Malt. Aged initially in bourbon barrels and then in virgin Cherry Wood. Challenging the conception of traditional whiskey flavours, this unique Irish whiskey is full […]

Bowe’s Pub – Whiskey Pub

Bowe’s Pub was born in 1880, situated just a stone’s throw away from the famous Trinity College. Bowe’s has genuine old world charm about it. It is a little hidden, half way down Fleet Street, with a dark red front and large clock sticking out from the wall, indicating to all it’s time for a […]

Jack Ryan 12 Year Old Single Malt – Whiskey Review

The Ryan’s have been whiskey people for six generations. One generation or another has worked in some part of the whiskey business. By the early twentieth century the course was set for the Ryan family, to source, finish and bottle their very own whiskey. Today this twelve year old single malt is one of the […]

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Currach Single Malt Irish Whiskey – Atlantic Kombu Seaweed Cask

Glendalough 13 Year Old Mizunara Single Malt Whiskey