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Midleton Dair Ghaelach Knockrath Forest
Single Pot Still — Ireland
Reviewed
September 14, 2020 (edited April 18, 2021)
Tree 4, not sure why we don't have a score for each tree, but for consistency lets go with this.
Nose - there's something about natural casks where I get this pineapple fruit sour that I freaking love and it's big and bold here. Backed by some grain notes and vanilla and despite that over powering fruit note, I get some nice oak. Absolutely, love the intensity and power of this one on the nose.
Taste - Like licking the best tasting wooden table ever! It's a sweet malt that's just been infused with heavy heavy oak. Then the finish goes into these tropical island fruit notes, savory and swirling fruity madness. I get everything from caramel to vanilla to burnt vanilla and toffee and just oh man it's this insane wood quality. I feel so comfortable with this reminding me a teeling single malt and a barry crocket...but there's a richness and a power and a just crazy awesome oak profile here. There's a lot of spice on this too, very much reminding me that it's a pot still, but while sometimes I take the pot still spice as an off note, I'm loving it on this one even. Oh some chocolates and toffee are coming out. Butter cream candies. Finish is just over powering.
I don't know irish well enough to score this one fairly, but for now 4.25, and I need more of this in my life.
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This review makes me want to go around licking wood tables now...
@PBMichiganWolverine I'd venture to guess it's much like a single barrel. Sure they can be different, but if they're more or less next to eachother, how different would they really be? So I doubt there's a huge difference, but I'd expect side by side you'd notice subtlties....but pure speculation on my part.
I tried a pour of a few trees—-had a really hard time telling any difference. Wondering if the tree thing is just a marketing gimmick ?