Connemara / Single Malt Irish whiskey

Connemara

Single Malt Irish whiskey

ABV 40%
REVIEWED Issue 3

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Specifications

Brand: Connemara
Expression: Single Malt Irish whiskey
Type: Republic of Ireland Whisky / Single Malt
Age: No Age Statement
ABV: 40%
Country/Region: Republic of Ireland
Bottling type: Standard (Distillery or blended)

Awards

Recommended
Issue 3

Tasting notes

Taster Jim Murray

Nose: Sweet, clean peat, vanilla and-floral notes. One of the most profound and complex of Irish noses.
Palate: Again very sweet, peaty. Softly honeyed and oily Mild molasses, fabulously smoky.
Finish: Becomes drier as some oak bites, but the peat just keeps on rumbling along.
Comment: This single malt had suffered from an identity crisis over the last year or so. Some vattings had become slightly off-key, dirty even, and the malt had lost direction. This bottling, however, is back to its brilliant best.

9.0

Taster Michael Jackson

Nose: Wonderfully peaty and smoky.
Palate: Smooth, oily. Sweet, perfumy, smoke.
Finish: Smoky. Sweet grass.
Comment: The revival of rustic peatiness adds a whole new element to today's palette of Irish whiskey flavours.

8.5

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Cooley Distillery, Riverstown, Cooley, Co. Louth, Republic of Ireland

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