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Redbreast 12 Year Cask Strength
Single Pot Still — Ireland
Reviewed
April 2, 2020 (edited March 17, 2021)
B2/19
Nose - vanilla, custard, pie, i get a hint of grape fruit but such a sweet profile over all. Maybe some toasted oak as well.
Taste - There's a lot of oak in here. It then moves to a sweet fruity and caramel dessert and then white grape fruit and oak on the finish, long, bitter, lingering but more like an IPA bitter, not an oak astringent or off putting one.
Wow - this is nothing of the over the top sweet but nicely toasted oak balanced bottle I had last. I'm less excited with this one. I love the lingering and really cool finish. But I'm so jarred expecting the reach sweet red breast 12 I came to love in CS.
Perhaps with the new packaging they felt it was time for a change and with the new NAS coming...well blah.
Anyway this is a cool whisky but it's just nothing like what I have had on past batches. For me this is a 2.0. The older bottles I've had would be 3.0+'s
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I think the other 12 CSs I've had were massive improvements over the standard 12. To be honest, I haven't had the 21 just due to the low proof. I can't wait for the 27 at CS though!
@WhiskeyLonghorn Managed to get a 21 without selling a kidney. Duty Free for at current exchange rates $120 USD!
Same. I couldn’t get into the idea of cask strength redbreast. I ended up proofing down my bottle over time (a fun experiment, mind you!), but ultimately I’ll just go back to the standard 12. Or if I feel like selling a kidney, the 21.
I bought a bottle a couple of years ago and wasn't impressed.. gave most of it away. I do love Redbreast but this was my lowest scoring one. Maybe batch variation?