Irish Whiskey reviews

Rising Reserve... that sounds pretty impressive. After the Revival and Renaissance series, it is the new series of Teeling in which no less than 5 releases of 21-year-old whiskey will are bottled. The…

One of the highlights of a visit to a distillery is undoubtedly being able to fill your own bottle or the purchase of a Distillery Exclusive. Needless to say, my good friend Benny J – Mr Teeling Belgium…

This single cask was selected by Stefan van der Boog of Passion For Whisky. It is a Teeling from 2008 that got a finish on – drum roll – a Bodega Ximenez Spinola PX Sherry Cask. That's a mouthful, just…

Teeling has already done some releases of their spirit matured in barrels from different breweries in the so-called Small Batch Series, but this one is of course very special for us, because Duvel is…

The Boann distillery was founded in 2015 by the Cooney family in Drogheda, about 40km north of Dublin. In 2017, the distillery was built, but firing could not start until 2019. So they are currently…

Roe & Co has its own distillery and is in full swing, but before their own product is mature, they pay the bill with releases of whiskey that they have purchased elsewhere. In the case of the Cask Str…

Green Spot, Yellow Spot and even Blue Spot you are probably familiar with. Well: here's the Red Spot, a 15-year-old single pot still that matured on a mix of bourbon casks, sherry butts and – drum roll…

The last time I put the Redbreast 2015 on the lips, dates back to 2010. Today the same whiskey is in the glass, but admittedly from a more recent bottling, namely 2019. The nose is a panoply of apples…

Ah, the first time I tasted the Redbreast 12 was in 2009. It is therefore high time to put it on the lips again, I think. And I have a double portion, because both Benny and Pat – two good whisk(e)y…

Kinahan's whiskey was founded in 1779 by Daniel Kinahan, but the brand was lost long ago. With the boom in which the Irish whiskey market finds itself today, it should come as no surprise that the brand…