Sadler's Peaky Blinder Irish Whiskey

Great with some salted meat.

Plain simple taste, won’t be one I will rush out to buy

The Peaky Blinders was a street gang who used razors in their berets to blind their enemies in a surprising way. A very famous tv series have picked this story and made a bunch of seasons which are spectacular. I truly believe this rather new whiskey is taking advantage of the name made by the tv series to boost their sales. But... is the whiskey any good? It actually is! On the nose, i really, really, really (that is 3 "really"s in one phrase) liked it. Starts with a nice creamy chocolate aroma, a thick vanilla, some gooseberries. Very creamy and buttery, actually pretty appealing. Chocolate Fudge, a dim and super interesting pepper spice. Cocoa powder. Nesquik chocolate powder formula. Bananas. Incredible aroma. Banana ice cream. After a first sip, it gave me freshly baked brownies. Sweet cooked bananas. On the palate, a creamy vanilla. A little watery, super smooth, you can hold it forever. Slight oak spice, marshmallow. There is a ghostly maize somewhere. Very easy to drink, not complex at all. Aftertaste is short and very straightforward but somehow it seems to work fine. A nice wood smoke. I really dig this boat wood smoke. A little grainy. Overall, this was a very surprising whiskey. I expected nothing and this really surprised me, the nose was so good i gave it a perfect score. The palate is enjoyable and aftertaste is a small capsule, but a good one. My score for it is 84 over 100 which is totally unexpected for a $35 irish whiskey. Very nice.

Peaky Blinder Blended Irish Whiskey might be the worst whiskey I've ever tasted. Supposedly there's blackcurrent and apple on the palate, but the nose and palate is so vile that it almost tastes like sewage water. I don't know whether I've had the bad luck of buying a bottle from a bad batch, or if the whisky itself is bad; I tend to think the latter. Stick to Jameson if you want a good blended Irish whiskey. It's frustrating as I tried Peaky Blinder at a bar once and I thought it was pretty good, which was the reason I bought a bottle. Turns out that at that bar, I was drinking a version that was aged in Sherry casks; the bottle that I bought was aged in Bourbon casks (it also had a different bottle design). Unfortunately, in the Netherlands you can currently only get the latter version.