House Character & Tasting Notes
This island whisky comes from our triple-distilled single pot still range –triple-distilled using only the best local unmalted and malted barley. Our patient, yet purposeful, triple-distillation produces a complex, layered and balanced new-make spirit. Dr. Swan described our original new-makewhich trickles o our copper pot stills as “the best that I have tasted inany distillery at this stage, super fruity.” This triple-distillate is evensmoother and fruitier!.
Peated Kildara, our Whiskymaker’s delicately peated Signature Expression, was married from a select combination of Bourbon casks, Portuguese red wine barriques, Virgin American casks, Spanish Pedro Ximénez barriques and Spanish Oloroso barriques in ordert o produce a layered complexity.
Our pot-still mash-bill recipe typically has 60% farmers barley and 40% malted barley, all locally grown. For this lightly peated expression we peat-smoke the malted barley using local peat from the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, U.S.A. The smoking is uniquely done at our distillery using traditional methods, resulting in a light, delicate 21 ppm peat-smoke level.
