With this new single malt whiskey, our buddies at Dublin’s Teeling celebrates one thing I’d not have instantly anticipated: The Notre Dame Preventing Irish soccer staff, which is celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of its first consensus Nationwide Championship in 1924. Teeling notes that in that yr, Notre Dame outscored their opponents 285-54 and went 10-0. The staff’s recreation in opposition to Military on October 18, 1924 was a serious upset, and is taken into account one of many all-time nice faculty soccer video games.
So: Preventing Irish, we get it!
This whiskey, Phoenix Legends, is a whopping 24 years previous and is completed in casks that held Rivesaltes, a fortified French wine. It’s the primary of three deliberate whiskeys that can rejoice Notre Dame soccer. USC followers, look away!
As for the whiskey itself, effectively, I can say it’s worthy of a championship of its personal. The nostril is a standout, immersing the patron in notes of spicy gingerbread, raisins, grilled pineapple, and layers of baking spice. It’s fairly effusive — much more expressive than the everyday glass of Irish — showcasing an fragrant depth that we not often see (a minimum of outdoors of Teeling’s common particular editions). Time in glass permits a word of cedar to construct, a contact of the unique barrel maybe exhibiting its face.
On the palate, I’d argue the whiskey is even higher: the fruit positively explodes on the tongue and provides up a strong mix of dried berries, extra candy pineapple, and notes of contemporary raspberries. The burst of fruit doesn’t readily let up, although it will definitely makes approach for touches of vanilla and coconut. The end clings to fruit cocktail whereas exuding that distinctly Irish high quality that I all the time equate with toast slathered in honey. The catch is that stated end is all however never-ending, coating the palate in ways in which I’ve not often skilled and which, finally, evokes for me a supple Cognac.
Completely stellar. I say you need to get one it doesn’t matter what faculty you went to.
92 proof. 1000 bottles produced.
A / $1000 (700ml) / teelingwhiskey.com
Teeling Single Malt Irish Whiskey Phoenix Legends #1 24 Years Previous
$1000
