Tasting notes

nose

prune, date and fig, with liquorice, marzipan and toasted oak

palate

creamy pot still spice with sherry richness and fresh oak

finish

sweetness and pot still spice linger, with oloroso and oak coming last

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. This bottle takes the whiskey out of its ex-bourbon and oloroso casks and gives it a final year in first-fill sherry butts from the Lustau bodega. It is not chill filtered. Irish Distillers makes Redbreast and is owned by Pernod Ricard.