Redbreast 1999  Sherry Cask TWE Exclusive (59.9%, OB, Sherry Cask #30087, 578 Bottles, 2015)

• Category: Irish single pot still whisky
• Origin: New Midleton Distillery
• Bottling: The Whisky Exchange
• ABV: 59.9%
• Cost: £180

What they say

This single-cask bottling of Redbreast was chosen by attendees of a special tasting at The Whisky Exchange shop in 2015. Distilled on 2 April 1999, this was aged for around 15 years, resulting in a rich and complex whiskey with notes of vanilla, coffee and wood spice.

What I say

Many thanks to Tom @TomsWhiskyReviews for sharing this official sample from Redbreast, this expression was fully matured in a single sherry butt #30087 and produced 576 bottles at outturn. Declared as colouring added by TWE?

My tasting notes:

• Appearance: Dark ruby gold (16/20), medium sized tears leave fine legs
• Nose: Spirity and spicy initially, deep dried dark and red fruits; raisin, prune, berries, plum, cherry, fig, date, suede leather, honey, vanilla, coconut, strawberry balsamic vinegar.
• Taste: Rich treacle, fruit cake mix, molasses, caramelised demerara sugar, cherry lips & strawberry laces sweeties, raisins, leather, spiced cinnamon & black pepper, aged oak wood, tannic stewed tea, fig, date, cocoa, nutty walnuts and walnut wood
• Finish: Medium-long, spiced dried fruits with rubbery hints & mince pies

Overall

Rich and robust, spiced Oloroso sherry fruits plenty of raisins served in a metallic copper bowl indicating both heavy sherry influence but good retention of pot still whisky character.

Score 86/100

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