Tasting note

Nose

What a character, full-bodied, spicy, sweet and, above all, lots of aroma. Red stewed apples, toasted nuts and sum sultanas. The lovely PX sherry cask has added a hint of balsamic to the aroma.

Taste

Bitter sweet chocolate, of those chocolate sultanas. But also enjoyed chocolate blasamic sauce over stewed pears. Full-bodied and round. Mild, but with character due to the firm alcohol. Caramel fudge completes the finish.

Finish

The mild sweetness of the flavour, gets a lot drier in the finish. But what an extremely long finish, delicious.

What Teeling itself has to say about it

"Our Master Distiller Alex Chasko is renowned for his innovative cask selection when it comes to Irish Whiskey, creating expressions of true character. This single cask was hand selected by our good friends from PassionForWhisky.com and Teeling Whiskey are honoured to bottle this rare and unique cask for the Netherlands. The single malt whiskey has spent 13 years maturing in an ex-PX Sherry cask from the acclaimed Xímenez-Spínola bodega, before being decanted from cask number 29639. Limited to just 276 bottles, non-chill filtered and bottled at 57.8% ABV, this is truly an Irish Whiskey to savour."

What others say

Ruben Luyten of WhiskyNotes gives this whiskey a score of 86/100 points

Read his tasting note here.