Redbreast 12-year-old
| Category | IRISH |
| Distillery | Midleton (1975-) |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | - |
| Bottled Year | 2011 |
| Age | 12년 |
| Cask Type | Sherry Casks / Bourbon Barrels |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 40.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Ireland |
| Region | - |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
아일랜드 코크의 미들턴 증류소는 발아와 미발아 보리를 함께 쓰는 싱글 팟 스틸 전통으로 레드브레스트에 특유의 알싸함을 새긴다. 셰리 캐스크와 버번 배럴에서 12년을 보낸 이 위스키는 짙은 호박빛을 띠며 장미 잼과 터키시 딜라이트, 밀크초콜릿의 향이 어우러져 올라온다. 40도의 입안은 팟 스틸의 알싸한 향신료와 건과일, 크리스마스 케이크의 단맛이 부드럽게 흐른다. 여운은 견과와 은은한 오크의 스파이스가 길게 남아 아이리시다운 온기를 전한다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
deep mahogany
air Nose
beautiful! Lots of Turkish delight, rose jam and gewürztraminer. It really smells like an antiques shop. Develops on milk chocolate and smoked oysters, with also some pine resin, whiffs of camphor and fern. Wow, how complex!
restaurant Palate
too bad, the attack is very dry and tannic, with lots of notes of burnt wood and burnt caramel. It gets more and more bitter, and also curiously salty. A little unbalanced in fact – I guess almost forty years in a quarter cask might be a little too much and the grain didn’t really manage to prevent the whole from having gone over the hill. Especially the finish is very bitter – and again very salty. Yet, it’s not undrinkable at all and the nose was absolutely fabulous, so my rating will be quite good: 86 points . Midleton ‘Very Rare’ (40%, OB, Irish, bottled 1996)