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Midleton

Midleton
Dair Ghaelach Kylebeg Wood Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey

Category: Irish Single Pot Still Whiskey

Date Tasted:
Country: Ireland
Alcohol: 55.4%
98 Points
Platinum Medal
Superlative
$350
2022 Best Irish Single Pot Still Whiskey

Midleton
Dair Ghaelach Kylebeg Wood Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey

Category: Irish Single Pot Still Whiskey

Date Tasted:
Country: Ireland
Alcohol: 55.4%
Golden amber color. Aromas and flavors of cassis and tart red cherry, baklava, pistachio cream, and canelé with a glycerous, fat body and a warming, complex, medium-long finish with accents of apple pastry, grape seed oil, and leather. A powerful yet graceful and flavorful Irish Single Pot Still Whiskey that has a spicy, high-octane mouthfeel without overwhelming the palate.

Tasting Info

Spirits Glass Style: Complex, Spicy & Fruity
Aroma Aroma: cassis and tart red cherry, baklava, pistachio cream, and canelé
Taste Flavor: Same as aromas with accents of apple pastry, grape seed oil, and leather
Smoothness Smoothness: Warming
Enjoy Enjoy: with cigars, on the rocks, neat and in cocktails
Cocktail Cocktails: Irish Coffee, Hot Toddy, Whiskey Smash
Bottom Line Bottom Line: A powerful yet graceful and flavorful Irish Single Pot Still Whiskey that has a spicy, high-octane mouthfeel without overwhelming the palate.

The Producer or Importer

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Irish Single Pot Still Whiskey

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Serve in a Glencairn Scotch Whisky Glass
Irish Single Pot Still Whiskey is an in Irish Whiskey made at a single distillery from a mixed mash of malted barley and unmalted barley in a single pot still. It is made with a minimum of 30% malted and 30% unmalted barley, and it is the use of the unmalted barley as well as the production resulting from a single distillery in a single pot that helps give it a distinct spiciness knows as ‘pot still character’; Irish Single Pot Still is also the only style of whiskey exclusively made in Ireland.