CKarmios
Connemara Original Peated Single Malt
Single Malt — Ireland
Reviewed
August 3, 2020 (edited September 30, 2020)
Nose: First out of the glass is the aromatic but delicate smoke. With it arrive elegant floral perfumes and green fruit notes. You're left with an impression of having just opened a pouch of aromatic pipe tobacco potpourri.
Palate: The delicate peat carries a taste of salted toffee, green apples and pears; barley, vanilla and herbal honey, whilst hidden at first behind the peat, eventually make an appearance to the patient palate. The floral perfumes turn into herbal impressions of green tea and heather.
For a peated malt, the finish is short and light, courtesy of the delicate peat and lack of heavy oils. A tickle of effervescent spearmint right at the end.
34.0
EUR
per
Bottle
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@CKarmios it could be. I hear good things about the 12 year and I’m starting to slowly see it on more shelves since Cooley was bought by Beam-Suntory. My guess is that the CS is an amplified but equally hollow experience, bit more time in the Barrel should lend to greater complexity.
@WhiskeyLonghorn I wonder if the whopping 57.9% ABV of their Cask Strength expression would render a fuller experience, or perhaps their 12-year old instead?
I think I rated this similarly. Unique profile, but a bit one note.