House Character & Tasting Notes
This island whisky is from our triple-distilled single pot still range – triple-distilled using only the best local unmalted and malted barley available. Our patient, yet purposeful, triple-distillation produces a complex, layered and balanced new-make spirit. Dr. Swan described our original new-make which trickles off our copper pot stills as “the best that I have tasted in any distillery at this stage, super fruity.” This triple-distillate is even smoother and fruitier! Kildara, our Whiskymaker’s Signature Expression, was married from a select combination of Kentucky Bourbon casks, Spanish Oloroso barriques, virgin American casks, and Spanish Pedro Ximénez (PX) barriques. The result is a full bodied, triple-distilled single pot still, island whisky with pronounced Oloroso and PX notes including dried fruit cake, vanilla crème laced with cinnamon, demerara sugar, and old seasoned leather notes. Abundant tropical fruits include candied orange, dried apricot, figs, ripe blackberries, blackcurrant jam, dried raisins and roasted nuts. The complexity continues with barley, malt and dried hay, butterscotch, milk chocolate, light tobacco and ocean breeze. The palate is velvety-soft, resplendent with full bodied Sherry and tropical fruit. Oatmeal develops into oak spices, coffee, dark chocolate orange, nectarines, stewed plums, blackcurrant, red currant and sultana’s, coming together as sweet dark fruitcake and honey. The finish presents dried fruit with a hint of salt and dulse, lingering oak and more Sherry, ending with hazelnut and almond raspberry pie with a drizzle of dark chocolate.
Enjoy!
Slainte
