Presumably getting the right number of barrels and maturation of each component to get this flavour profile year on year must be the reason why it has a limited release. On that note, the number of barrels that go into making this blend are clearly drawing out numerous influences to make this such a fresh and fruity dram. It is because of this freshness that this whiskey seems, at first, quite young to the taste, but once savoured, that soft texture indicates that all that time within the various barrels has extinguished the initial fire out of the original components. The whiskey is bursting with fruits, malts, cereals and a freshness that belies its age. The fruit flavours just tingle away amidst that sugary sweetness, and the soft texture and finish just slip off the tongue. It would be too obvious to say Irish cream, right, but that’s what it is like. Such a well-rounded and creamy finish! I mean, like, really creamy. The base grains haven’t entirely disappeared after the 14 years either. All that fruit on the nose remains present too but the oak is now making an appearance to bring the wood and spice to underline the whiskey’s age. The trip to the sweet shop continues, and the overwhelming flavour matches that of ‘Fruit Salad’ chewy sweets! Honest! Well, its a combination of oranges and pineapple. Lots of little flavours and smells coming out afterwards, including some juicy pineapple and apples. Getting past that smell, the sherbet sweetness is joined by woody oak flavours and toffee. Oh, it’s tingly! The leading fragrance that I get from this is the sweet, floral nose of parma violets. That’s a whole load of casks! The distillery releases limited quantities of this expression however, with the distillery only producing 200 or so barrels annually, and then bottling the final product at the very precise 41.3% ABV. by blending their signature concoction of three grains and their pot still, malt and grain whiskies, and then maturing the whiskies in a variety of bourbon, port, madeira and oloroso sherry casks. Sampled here as part of a Tweet Tasting however, this 14 year old whiskey, takes the classic combination of Tullamore D.E.W. has seldom been seen on British shores and has often been sold by the Irish whiskey-makers within the travel retail and foreign exclusive markets.
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