Nose
Honey, vanilla, orchard fruit, and a light pot-still spice.
No. 22 · Irish
Midleton Very Rare
Midleton · Cork
Irish Distillers' annual vintage blend, a marriage of pot still and grain chosen for that year and sold in a wooden box. The photograph is specifically the 2009 bottling. Later vintages keep the idea and change the whiskey.
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- Distillery
- Midleton
- Country / region
- Ireland · Cork
- Style
- Irish
- Year of release
- Annual
- Age statement
- A blend of ages; the vintage on the label is the bottling year
- Bottles made
- Annual since 1984. Each vintage is limited and the outturn changes. This record does not pin one count.
- ABV
- Typically 40%
- Cask type
- A blend of single pot still and grain whiskeys from Midleton
- Approximate value
- Recent vintages often retail around £180–£300. Approximate.
Tasting notes
Palate
Elegant and smooth: cream, toasted oak, and a little green apple.
Finish
Soft, sweet, and not especially long.
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Approx. value
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