Six Irish Whiskies

If there were any doubts about the ability of Irish whiskies to match the breadth and depth of flavours exibited by their Scottish cousins, it has been dispelled for those that participated in our tasting on April 7, 2009.

Vanilla, carmel, smokey, earthy, peaty, oatmeal, grassy, fruity, green apple, and melon aromas gave way to tobacco, leather, cereal, nutty, heather, honey, medicinal, and spicy flavours. Fortunately these traits were not found all in one whisky otherwise our tasters would have had great difficulty with their score sheets. As it was, there were four that had a median score of over twenty out of thirty with Tyrconnell and Connamara Peated Single Malt topping all others at 24.

In short, if you are looking for something to perk up your coffee have one of these on the side so you can savour the flavour.

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Median scores

Appearance

Aroma

Flavour

Aftertaste

Likeability

Total

out of 4

out of 4

out of 6

out of 8

out of 8

out of 30

3.0

3.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

24.0

4.0

3.0

5.0

6.0

6.0

24.0

3.0

3.0

4.5

6.0

6.0

22.5

2.0

3.0

4.5

6.0

6.0

21.5

Innishowen

2.5

2.5

3.5

4.0

4.5

17.0

2.0

3.0

3.5

3.5

3.5

15.5

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