Redbreast 15 Year

Sweet, spicy & fruity. Caramel, toffee, apple. Mild spice, grassy

On the nose, we start fruit forward with red delicious apple, some pear, honey, graham cracker, tobacco, and the slightest hint of wet, green oak. Aroma is decently strong for the proof and contains next to no ethanol. Pleasant to huff. Palate opens with the honey and apple from the nose along with shortbread, toffee, and butterscotch. Flavors are well integrated and rounded. While it doesn’t scream “bold”, it is far from wimpy. Flavors sit very much on the front of the tongue. Medium length finish is where things get truly interesting. Featuring date, fig, plum, nutmeg, peppermint, and a light kind of generic spice underneath. Oak appears as a balancing factor for the sweetness rather than a prominent trait of its own. Mouthfeel is smooth and velvety. Overall a pretty delightful and complex Irish whiskey that comes together really well and there’s much to like here. At $85 it’s a bit pricy but you ARE getting a 15 year age statement, and the age shows in the lack of rough edges or flaws so I’d consider it a “fair” value. Rebuy? I tend to prefer the cask strength version, so maybe not if that is available, but that’s really the only thing preventing a rebuy and my rating reflects that.

Fresh nose, some citrus, light spice. Nice medium body, caramel but not too sweet, red fruit, light tannins, well balanced, medium short finish

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