Tasting notes

nose

rich dried fruit, toasted oak and vanilla, with dark chocolate and pot still spice

palate

fruitcake, caramel and leather, with dates, prunes and baking spice

finish

long, with sherry, spice and deep oak lingering

Mash bill

Redbreast has not published a grain split for this whiskey. Single pot still Irish whiskey is made from malted and unmalted barley together, and Redbreast triple distills it in copper pot stills.

Why it's craft

Redbreast is a single pot still whiskey, made from malted and unmalted barley and triple distilled in copper pot stills at the New Midleton Distillery in County Cork. The 15 Year is matured in three kinds of wood, American bourbon casks, American virgin oak and oloroso sherry butts, and is not chill filtered. Irish Distillers makes Redbreast and is owned by Pernod Ricard.