A gin with Barry’s Classic Blend Tea at its core. Distilled tea doesn’t taste much like tea, it’s spicy. However it still marries well with all the traditional accompaniments like cardamon, cinnamon and lemon. Stir in a good measure of juniper and you are well on the way to distilling a seasonal special. Large pots of tea are brewed which then get stirred...
The guys at Blackwater distillery wondered what would happen if one were to age gin in a cask made from juniper wood! They went a step further and actually did it! They had 50 litre Juniper wood casks specially made for them and they matured a slightly different variant of Blackwater No 5 in them. The 12 botanicals used are the same as Blackwater No 5 but...
Blackwater No. 5 is a classic London Dry Gin, distilled in Blackwater distillery in west Waterford. They only use the botanicals that were imported into Ireland by White’s of Waterford during the 19th century. Of the twelve botanicals used, ten are classic while two are rather special and probably unique to Blackwater No.5 Gin.
Blackwater use thirteen botanicals to distill this gin, the largest of these being strawberry, as you might expect. The berries are grown just outside Enniscorthy (Co. Wexford) and transported to the distillery in a large cool box. After distillation, they soak more strawberries in the gin and that’s how it gets its colour.
Retronaut was the first whiskey release from the Blackwater Distillery in County Waterford. Retronaut is a sourced single malt Irish whiskey which is exclusively matured in ex bourbon casks for 17 years and limited to 1140 bottles. Picked up the gold medal for Irish single malt (13 years & older) at the Irish Whiskey Awards 2018. Bottled at 46%, natural...
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