Nose: honey, lemon, sharp, unpleasant orange. Taste: butter cookie and spicy cinnamon. It has a very sharp and unpleasant finish. Adding water doesn't change the nose but enhances the taste with more spicy cinnamon and honey alongside bitter grapes and dates with red wine. It's acceptable. Nothing remarkable. Far superior Irish spirits exist.
Clonakilty Bordeaux Cask Finish Single Grain
Whiskey Irish Whiskey Ireland No age statement 43.6% ABV
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Clonakilty Bordeaux Cask Finish is a 9-year-old single grain whiskey. This sourced whiskey completes its aging in former Bordeaux wine casks before being bottled at 43.6% ABV.
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Wonderful. It's less viscous than Compass Box Hedonism, but it has the same distinct sharp vanilla flavor, followed by a red wine finish that offers a pleasing contrast. I would buy a bottle, but it's difficult to find on shelves in the USA.
Extremely smooth. The maturation in Bordeaux casks imparts a distinct berry flavor to this whiskey. If you appreciate red wine, you will certainly enjoy this.
On the nose and palate, it's semi-sweet and creamy with hints of caramel, vanilla, milk chocolate, shortbread, and berries. The medium finish has a peppery quality.
A very pleasant single grain spirit. It's smooth and flavorful, with a finish that offers notes of fine red wine. Quite approachable.
Liquid toffee with a subtle hint of orange peel and a twist of fresh, rain-dampened sweet grass.
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