Tasting notes

nose

tropical fruit, nuts and rich dried fruit, with cooked apple and brown sugar

palate

soft vanilla and toasted oak, with sherried nuttiness, fleshy fruit and pot still spice

finish

lingering oak and spice, then barley, with caramel apple and cocoa

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 21 Year has been part of the range since October 2013. It is matured in American bourbon casks and first-fill oloroso sherry casks, and it is not chill filtered. Irish Distillers makes Redbreast and is owned by Pernod Ricard.