Cooley Distillery

Riverstown
Cooley
Co. Louth
Ireland

Telephone: 00-353-42-9376102
Fax: 00-353-42-9376484
Web: http://www.cooleywhiskey.com
Email: cooleydistillery@eircom.net

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Whiskies from 'Cooley Distillery'

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• Connemara 12 Years Old

This is a bottling of 28 casks of the 1991 vintage, so it is particularly rare an therefore collectible. When it's gone. It's gone.

• Connemara 12 Years Old

That lactic note overwhelms nose and palate. Not sure that a dairy whisky is something to look forward to! Surprisingly, a dash of water makes more palatable.

• Connemara Cask Strength

The paler colour suggests less interesting casks. The higher the alcohol adds to the pepperiness. The end result is drier, more cutting, but less rounded than the 40%

• Connemara Cask Strength

I just love this un-chill filtered version; it's fat, it's loud and it's fun. In this price bracket, there are very few Scottish single malts that can match it.

• Connemara Peated Single Malt

There’s real substance here. Well-integrated.

• Connemara Peated Single Malt

Lots happening. Chimney pots of smoke. I love this whiskey.

• Connemara Peated Single Malt Irish Whiskey

Characterful, vivid but not complex. “tastes” stronger than 40%. A body warmer for cool evenings.

• Connemara Single Malt Irish whiskey

The revival of rustic peatiness adds a whole new element to today’s palette of Irish whiskey flavours.

• Kilbeggan 15 Years Old

Proof (if it were needed) that Cooley is a serious player.

• Kilbeggan Blended Irish Whiskey

Light but firm and satisfying. A welcome newcomer for everyday drinking.

• Kilbeggan Finest

An attractive sipper, but only in decent mouthfuls. A good session whiskey...if one is allowed to say that in these moderate times.

• Tyrconnell

A pleasant, light-tasting malt.

• Tyrconnell

This malt used to be a tad young, the current bottling is older and certainly works better.

• Tyrconnell

Pleasant, light. For sociable drinking.

• Tyrconnell 14 Years Old

A decent drink, but the port finish is the winner out of the trio.

• Tyrconnell Madeira Finish 10 Years Old

Well put together, the finish not too obtrusive.

• Tyrconnell Port Finish

This just balances the whisky and the finish.

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Articles about 'Cooley'

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• New Irish Dawn

  Much has been made of the Scotch whisky boom,but Irish whiskey is also in rude good health. Dominic Roskrow looks at the new kids on the block..
  Found in issue 74 (Irish)

• Border store

  Joe Bates heads across the American border.
  Found in issue 73 (Travel retail)

• The Cooley effect

  In the second of three features asking ‘what is Irish whiskey? ’Dave Broom gets caught up in Cooley.
  Found in issue 70 (Cooley Distillery)

• The emerald isle

  Once rich in distilleries, Ireland has few left and only one permits visitors. So whisky tourists have to work domainly with museums. Great country to do it though..
  Found in issue 70 (Visitors)

• National Treasures

  The search starts to find the cream of the crop in the whisky world. Scotland, Ireland and Canada have been scrutinised,we find out who is in the running..
  Found in issue 67 (Icons of Whisky 2008)

• Back to life (Kilbeggan)

  A unique occasion in the history of Irish whiskey took place recently – an old distillery came back to life –our man was on the spot for the first drops of spirit.
  Found in issue 64 (Whisky Spotlight)

• Celtic resurgence

  Is the Emerald Isle worth a visit for whiskey fans? You bet – and particularly in 2007.
  Found in issue 62 (Visitors’ Guide)

• Gateway to exclusive whiskies

  Joe Bates checks out the latest offers.
  Found in issue 62 (Travel retail)

• Bruichladdich bonanza

  Ian Buxton gets his taste buds tickled with the latest releases.
  Found in issue 59 (Whisky spotlight)

• A slice of heaven

  Ireland doesn’t have a lot of distilleries but what it has are all worth a visit. Iorwerth Griffiths reports.
  Found in issue 58 (Visitor's guide)

• Irish guys still smiling

  Ireland’s only independent distillery has had a rollercoaster time since it was established at the end of the ’80s.Now it’s time to deliver,its chairman tells Dominic Roskrow.
  Found in issue 57 (Irish Whiskey)

• Celtic tiger

  Dublin’s Celtic Whiskey Shop is driving an interest in Irish whiskeys but Scotch is benefiting too. Iorweth Griffiths reports.
  Found in issue 57 (Whisky spotlight)

• The best of blends

  Joe Bates on the Regency Duty Free, Auckland,New Zealand.
  Found in issue 57 (Travel retail)

• The beautiful South?

  Lew Guthrie III on Southern Rock Opera by Drive-By Truckers – an epic concept album on the life and times of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
  Found in issue 53 (Whisky and music)

• The world of whisky in words

  Fifty quotes from 50 issues of Whisky Magazine.
  Found in issue 50 (Whisky Magazine)

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