Greenore 8 Years Old 1996, Single Grain Irish Whiskey

Tasted in Whisky Magazine Issue 61 by Dave Broom and Arthur Motley.

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Tasting Notes

Dave Broom Nose A wildly spiced nose: caraway, turmeric, dried mint (freshly made mint sauce), banana chips, plain wood. Cereal. Bourbon like. Palate Light. The mintiness carries through. Some hard youth battling against sweetness from the oak. Cinnamon balls. Finish Short. Comment The best Greenore yet. Worth a look.

Arthur Motley Nose Crab apple and redcurrant jelly. A bourbony, grain-like character is more evident. A little cloying after a time, like the sweetness of jam cooking. Palate Lots of vanilla, filled with new sawn oak. Finish That vanilla oozes back like a half-sucked caramel chew. Comment A simple but satisfying whisky that almost tricked me into thinking it was a bourbon at times. Good stuff for its age too.