What Whisky/Whiskey are we drinking this month?

By chance I ended up in a little coffee shop and farm shop in Wales in September.

I picked up a bottle "Penderyn" welsh single malt whisky in said shop.

It is actually quite nice. Opened it up tonight.

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Mellor wrote: »

I’d agree with that approach. Some benefit, some don’t there is a line. Personal taste of course.
But I can’t think why single malt status would be a factor.

It's because people who don't know what they're talking about attach some particular prestige status to the label of single malt and further think that adding water takes away from that prestige.

Quackster wrote: »

Roe & Co now €25 in Tesco. Have yet to try it but I couldn't really leave it behind at that price!

Picked one up myself today, looking forward to trying it!

What are everyone's opinions on it so far?
Is it just bit of mass produced stuff for Diageo to enhance market share?

Anyway, definitely worth a punt at 25 quid.

Indestructable wrote: »

Picked one up myself today, looking forward to trying it! What are everyone's opinions on it so far?
Is it just bit of mass produced stuff for Diageo to enhance market share?
Anyway, definitely worth a punt at 25 quid.

I presume it will be quite some time before we get anything from the new distillery but not sure where current product sourced from.

It is a bit of a step up to your basic Bushmills or whatever in that it is bottled at 46% to be used in cocktails (not long mixers). Think Teelings also usually bottled at 46%.

I have used it in cocktails (nice) and also just with ice it has strong vanilla\apple flavours, different to usual whiskey flavours, v smooth.

I remember reading some promo material on it that it was a mix of grain and malt whiskey, aged 5-8 years but can't find a source for that.

Effects wrote: »

I curiously asked at the original launch of the distillery and was told it came "from a factory on the Nangor Road".

Wiki says thats where Baileys is produced... but there is no distillery there.

Quackster wrote: »

Roe & Co now €25 in Tesco. Have yet to try it but I couldn't really leave it behind at that price!

Tried the cask strength at the weekend and was very impressed.

Bought the regular 45% bottle for €25 in Tesco today and just tried it. Smooth and soft but very little depth or character.

If it was a white wine I'd call it "slightly sweet inoffensive easy drinking".

Good value for money at €25 but wouldn't pay more for it.

I did the Powerhouse tour on Sunday (with the Christmas Wreath making to keep the missus happy) and couldn't recommend it enough.

You start by tasting their core product, then onto a cocktail making class and finish in the bar with a drinks voucher. I got to taste the curator series which they said is a limited release and a step above the core bottling and also the cask strength which I am going to buy a bottle off as soon as I can. That said I never actually used the drinks voucher as they are happy enough to give out stock with the hope you buy something in the shop at the end.

The tour guide let slip that the majority was sourced from the oldest most northern distillery so Ill let you take a wild guess at that one!!

Cazale wrote: »

Is that the powerscourt tour? Noel Sweeney is their master distiller. He worked with John Teeling for years so their stock is bought in but a lot of it's stuff Sweeney had distilled previously.

Powerhouse. Former Guinness site in Dublin.

I was at a medieval Christmas market in the small town of Vic in Catalunuya last Friday. There was a German guy there who has an interest in all things spirits, travels around the world visiting and working with and for distilleries.

He said he's never been as excited about a newcomer to the market than the Waterford distillery. Tradition, technology, expertise, sustainability. It has it all.

Thought it pretty cool to here a German lad raving about Irish whiskey in the back arse of nowhere in Europe.

Santa sorting me out with a nice Yamasaki 12 if he knows what's good for him

EugeC90 wrote:

I visited the Teelings Distillery aswell and I thought the Roe and Co a better experience. The Whiskey tasting at the end of the Teeling was great but the tour of the distillery itself was a bit boring which could have been tour guide dependent but I wouldnt rush back.

I did Teeling in the summer and it's a victim of its own success. It had an almost Guinness storehouse vibe about it with the level of tourists milling around it.

The best tour I did recently was at the Royal Oak distillery in Carlow. I visited the week production was down for maintenance so I was able to stick my head into equipment that was normally off limits. It was like visiting Willy Wonkas chocolate factory!

Lidl Monaghan has Speyside and Islay

odyssey06 wrote: »

There were two Irish whiskies in the Whisky Advocate Top 20 of the Year:
* Writers Tears Double Oak
* Powers Three Swallow

Also in the Top 20 was the Talisker release for Game of Thrones, and Laphroaig Càirdeas Cask Strength Triple Wood.

The overall winner was George Dickel 13 year old - the other major Tennessee Whiskey brand.

In the new releases, the Dingle Single Malt Batch #4 got a great review (91).

And I wasn't aware of it previously, but Jameson Caskmates Revolution Brewing - barrels seasoned with Chicago based Revolution Brewing’s Fist City pale ale - got a pretty decent score for its price bracket at 89 points.

I wouldn't take whisky advocate too seriously. Out of the 20. 8 are bourbon. All really good bourbon though but being a US website and having almost half of the top 20 bourbons doesn't look like they are being fair.