On the nose: a little pine resin brings a real freshness that leads towards a gentle aromatic peat. Honey, pear drops and freshly sliced green apples. It’s an inviting and approachable nose without grabbing you by the throat. A little smoke that transcends into smoked bacon, then barley sweets.
In the mouth: it’s a little flat and non-defined. A lashing of vegetative peat but this moves quickly aside leaving a slight pepperiness and little else. Apples again and then smoked cream and brown toast. A touch of redness from the finish but its all a bit flaccid.
A very inoffensive whiskey but one that lacks the price appeal of the standard Connemara release. Instead, you’re paying substantially more for a bottle that fails to really warrant the asking price. Quite surprising, as I had reasonable expectations for this whiskey but sadly it falls way short of what I had envisaged.
