Glendalough 17 Year Old Single Malt spent its first 15 years in a first-fill bourbon cask creating the vibrant citrus, sweet honey and vanilla notes you'd expect. It was the the final two years of maturation in the rare, Japanese Mizunara, however that brought the unexpected. The Mizunara oak, sourced from an island 6,000 miles away, has really rounded...
Glendalough Double Barrel is a single grain Irish whiskey, aged in a combination of bourbon and oloroso sherry casks. Sweet and creamy, with butterscotch and honey from the American oak and dried fruit from the Spanish.
Poitín was first made by Irish monks in the 6th century in monasteries like Glendalough and was known as "uisce beatha" {ishka baha}, "the water of life”. (A mispronunciation of the word "uisce" is where the word "whiskey" comes from).
Tasting notes:
The nose. Light, floral, forest berries, gooseberries through the headiness of the higher alcohol.
The...
Glendalough Pot Still Irish whiskey is finished for up to one year in rare casks, virgin Irish oak. The chaps at Glendalough sustainably fell 140 year-old trees from the ancient oak forests in the mountains around the distillery. This forms the beginning of a year long process that ends with an Irish oak hogshead. These special casks are filled with the...
To create this Rose gin, Glendalough take their wild gin and re-distill it with extra fruit, flowers, spices and a lot of fresh rose petals. Three varieties of rose are used; the rare and elusive Wild Rose from the Wicklow mountains, large fragrant Heritage Roses and the ancient prized Damask Rose. All of which come together to make this a naturally pink...
Each season Glendalough go out into the wilds of Wicklow and forage. They pick what grows and distill with it the very next day. The Spring gin is a fresh mix of young green shoots, wild botanical leaves and flowers. With each taste, this gin transports you to a place and time in our home - the Wicklow Mountains. This years edition is fresh, young and...
Glendalough make this Gin in August when the Wicklow hedgerows are full of blackberries, warm and ripened by the sun. The mountains around the distillery change colour from green to purple as the heather ripens, heather flowers are picked when they are in full bloom and the pollen makes the mountain air smell like honey. Wild blackberries and heather are...
After a very successful range of seasonal botanical gins, this is the year round effort from Glendalough and it tastes as good as it sounds. The guys at Glendalough forage the local area around the distillery including the Wicklow mountains for the botanicals that create this wonderful floral, herbal gin.
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