Tasting notes

nose

tangerine, orange peel, chamomile, nutmeg and cedar

palate

vanilla, floral honey and sugar-glazed fruit

finish

vanilla and floral honey, with black peppercorn and clove

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 is a limited release finished for 16 months in Moscatel wine casks from a Málaga bodega, which is a wine cask the range had not used before. Irish Distillers makes Redbreast and is owned by Pernod Ricard.