The Dingle Whiskey Distillery 6th Small Batch Release 46.5% NV

Professionele reviews

BOW (86)

Serge Valentin (85)

On one hand, it's just Tawny Port, on the other, it's a 'full maturation', not just a 'quickie finishing'. We'll see... Colour: gold. Nose: well, what we see is that it's not overwhelmed by strawberries and blackberries, and we're glad . Okay, there is a bit of strawberry, raspberry, cranberry, grenadine, redcurrant, cherry, wild strawberry (I think they've got it, S.), but the malt and associated cakes and pastries blend quite well, avoiding the, uh, how should we say without offending anyone, let's say very slightly 'slutty' side. Potpourri, bouquet of dried flowers, peonies... Mouth: but yes it's good, with pretty spices and all these fruits we mentioned, just dried, candied or turned into jam. A bit like old bachelor's jam (*). Finish: quite long, fruity and jammy, but never vulgar. Blood oranges and figs at the end. A magnificent finish. Comments: the tawny behaved well, even if it did mark quite strongly this very pretty Irish-Portuguese, thus perfectly European Dingle. I remind you that Dingle is located in the southwest of the Republic of Ireland, roughly at the level of Cork.