Midleton Distillery post-tour tasting, 20 May 2024, whisky #2 Nose: Butter, honeydew melon, plaintain, vanilla, there is a metallic aroma like water from old plumbing. Palate: Sweetish vegetal, green apple and cereal flavours veering towards papery grain notes as it develops. The texture is OK. Finish: Medium/Short. Overbrewed tea, cardboard, oak. This is clearly identifiable as Midleton distillate but it is just as clearly overshadowed by almost everything else in the Midleton range. To be fair it is a blended whisky and, apart from the Jameson range, everything else made at Midleton is pot still or single malt so maybe that's an unfair comparison. The thing is, here in Australia for $20 more you can get Green Spot, which is a much tastier pure pot still whisky and better value overall, and at the other end of the scale Jameson is $20 cheaper and just about as good, so you can't help but wonder - why bother with Gold Label? "Average" : 79/100 (2.75 stars)