A single malt Irish whiskey from the Cooley distillery, Tyrconnell is incredibly creamy and smooth.
Sweet and crisp with orchard fruits and a malty character. Oaked dryness and an oily note.
Full and sweet with barley malt and hot buttered granary toast with honey.
Dry and grassy with a little spice.
For me I'd never drink this one again one sip was enough for me.just taste wrong hard to see how anyone could appreciate this one.
There is a metallic oily taste from this whiskey that I can't get past. It reminds me old old steam engines, or classic cars. Maybe like eating a sandwich with oily hands. I live good Irish whiskeys, but for me this is not one of the..
I found this had almost no taste, and an unpleasantly strong petrol/paraffin aftertaste. I'm trying to expand my knowledge of Irish whiskeys, and was hoping for something at least as good as the entry-level Jamesons, Tullamore DEW and Bushmills I already know. To get it finished, I had to mix it with a bottle of Gordon's Sloe Gin (another disappointment, sweet and sticky, the very essence of the stuff you find on pub floors that makes your feet stick to the floor). This worked for a while, the alcohol afterburn of the one mitigating the cloying sweetness of the other, but I was glad to finish the both of them. On the subject of Irish whiskey, can anybody directly compare The Irishman 70 with The Irishman Founder's Reserve ? Price and description sound very similar, don't want to buy both, or the lesser one of the two !
This stuff is shit
An interesting whiskey. I think I've come to terms with it about 1/3 the way into the bottle. To me giving it at least 10 to 15 minutes in the glass after adding a drop of water is critical for this one. In the first minute it's too spicy and off-putting in flavor although the nose is fantastic. After that mine develops a disturbing vinyl note on the nose that eventually dissipates and at that point the tasting notes above are pretty spot on. On the nose I also get a bit of fresh cut hay, high quality hand-made beeswax candles, and that vinyl note has transformed into a punchy fresh maltiness. On the finish the spices I get are mostly nutmeg with some ginger and a touch of cinnamon.
