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What Are The Best Whiskeys And Gins For Christmas?

Egan’s Fortitude Single Malt fully matured in Pedro Ximenz Sherry casks for between 4-6yrs. Bottled...
JJ Clarke
JJ Clarke

5:27 PM - 14 Dec 2021



The Last Word With Matt Cooper

What Are The Best Whiskeys And Gins For Christmas?

JJ Clarke
JJ Clarke

5:27 PM - 14 Dec 2021

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Egan’s Fortitude

Single Malt fully matured in Pedro Ximenz Sherry casks for between 4-6yrs. Bottled at 46%, non chill filtered.

Works great in an Irish coffee with some grated Terry’s chocolate Orange over the top.

Nose - Heavy Sherry & raisin.

Palate - Dark chocolate, Christmas cake & burnt Orange

Finish - long with a recurring sweetness from the PX influence

€47

 

Micil Irish Whiskey, Galway Ireland

New release.

A five-part peated blend with a triple cask finish. Inspired by Micil’s rich distilling heritage, it embodies the fruity spice of the finest Connemara
‘fuisce’ and the peat smoke of the illicit stills and kilns of Inverin.

Finished in PX & re charred bourbon casks.

€45

 

The Celt

Single malt Sherry cask finish

Small batch release. Exclusive to the Celtic whiskey shop on Dawson street. a whiskey that has been finished in hand selected casks that they get from their relationships  with fortified wine makers in Jerez..

Normally €75 - €55 for month of December

 

Dark Silkie Donegal

Slabh Laig Distillers

A Smokey blend of double distilled and triple distilled peated malted whiskey with soft grain whiskey. Apple and ginger with soft smoke throughout.

Available nationwide.

€50

 

Teeling Single Cask

Pot still virgin oak exclusively bottle for James Foxes grafton street. Bottles at cask strength, 64% full of vanilla and butterscotch. Only one cask selected for bottling.

€120

 

Teeling single cask

Single pot still

Exclusive to the bank bar college green.

Finished in sherry cask. Bottled at cask strength.

€140

What Are The Best Whiskeys And Gins For Christmas?

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