Connemara Cask Strength 57.9%

Wine information: Cooley Distillery is the only independently Irish-owned whiskey distillery in Ireland. It was founded in 1987 when John Teeling bought the former state-owned alcohol plant on the Cooley Peninsula and converted it into two distilleries—a pot still and a patent still operation. The company takes its name from the location of the distillery at the foothills of the Cooley Mountains in County Louth. Acquisitions included the assets of the old A.A. Watt Distillery in Co. Derry (established in 1762) and John Locke and Co. of Kilbeggan (established in 1757); the latter is the oldest licensed distillery in the world. The company now produces three styles of single malt whiskey, several blends, and a small batch single grain. Distillation continues to take place at the Cooley Distillery with the cooperage and ageing cellars in the John Locke’s Distillery in Kilbeggan. Connemara Peated Single Malt Irish whiskey is a tribute to this region, and to its grassroots culture. Its complex characters and peaty taste revive a tradition that in recent years has been forgotten by Irish distillers throughout the country. Connemara’s strength is the balance of peat with sweet malt and oak. Double distillation retains the flavours, which are in perfect balance with the phenol levels of 15 parts per million—far less than the 50 parts per million for most heavily peated whiskies. The Connemara Pure Pot Still Peated Single Malt Irish Whiskey is a unique product, being the only single peated pure malt Irish whiskey distilled. Connemara Cask Strength is Connemara Single Malt bottled from the cask at around 60 per cent alcohol by volume. The unique and exceptional quality of Connemara Cask Strength was recognised in the International Wine and Spirits Competition where it won a gold medal in 2000. Tasting notes of Jim Murray, renowned Whiskey Commentator - Nose: This is the unique aroma of peated Irish whiskey as nature intended. When cold, the smokiness is quite lazy; warm in the glass and it starts to lift off into another, medicinal direction and positively amplifies when it reached the nostrils. Wow! Taste: Big, fat and oily start with enormous peat surge in the middle. The peatiness is toasty and roasty rather than iodiney. It absolutely fills the mouth yet still enables sufficient malt to come through to give some added complexity. Finish: Massive peat clings to every crevice in the mouth and remains sweet and glorious.

 
     

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