pkingmartin
Redbreast 12 Year Cask Strength
Single Pot Still — Ireland
Reviewed
March 17, 2021 (edited May 27, 2021)
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day, a perfect reason to open an Irish whiskey and give a tasting or two. Sadly I was all out of stock, but @ContemplativeFox was kind enough to give me a sample of this to taste.
The nose starts sweet with freshly baked short bread cookies then caramel and citrus fruits of orange, lemon, apple, and cereal before finishing with spices of cinnamon, ginger, pepper, cloves, light oak and medium ethanol burn. The taste comes through with a medium viscosity starting with bubble gum, light caramel, leading to citrus fruits of orange, lemon, apple, then spicy pepper invaded and hits hard along with flavors of ginger, cloves, and medium oak tannins with medium ethanol burn leading to a medium finish that’s very spicy with pepper, ginger, cloves, medium oak tannins and light lemon.
Overall, I think this is a pretty solid whiskey and happy I got to try it, but for the price of 70 and above, there are better value options than this one to choose like Writer’s Tears Double Oak. The flavors on the nose are nice, the first half of the taste was nice but then the spice bomb came on and seemed to not stop.
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Oh thought this was the standard RB never tried cask
I like this much more but it is overpriced agreed
I'm very interested to do a cask strength comparison between this and Blue Spot. But so far, Blue Spot is either sold out or on sale for an absolutely silly price. Is it limited edition? That would be a little surprising, as the youngest Spot whiskey.
Great review and Happy St Patrick’s Day! I completely forget it was today. Makes sense why there’s been an influx of Irish whiskey reviews these past few days.
@ContemplativeFox I couldn’t find sherry notes either. I felt like the kid gazing at the where’s Waldo trying to find him but the publisher left him off the page.
And I found the cask strength even better then the standard 12. But you can’t go wrong with either in my opinion.
This was essentially my conclusion too. It's a good whiskey, but nothing exceptional. I'd expected more sherried notes in it. I've heard that the older bottles were better, but sadly I've no way to confirm. Happy Saint Patrick's Day!🍀