An incredible malt with flavours of banana and other tropical fruit, a touch of welcome peat smoke and hints of pepper, tobacoo, chocolate and orange zest...
So light and soft it could almost be described as fragile. 'The Laddie' has plenty of flavour though, lots of maltiness, zesty lemon and vanilla custard...
The Buena Vista Cafe in San Francisco is where America's first Irish coffee was made in 1952. Irish coffee was invented by Irishman Joe Sheridan when he was working in Foynes Airport in Co Clare. The Buena Vista Cafe flew over Sheridan himself to help them with their recipe. This whiskey was specially made for them at Midleton to put into their ca. 2,000 Irish coffees per day! It's now discontinued, replaced first by Jameson and now by Tullamore Dew. It's a light blend with slightly spicy notes, giving the coffee a nice kick...
Lots of interesting and enticing aromas with a palate packed full of spice, sweet fruits, oak and chewy rye influenced flavours of mint, herbs and pepper...
A whisky that definitely deserves more attention. This is a flavour packed 18 year old with touches of salted caramel, roasted nuts, oloroso sherry and fruit n nut chocolate. ..
The first step on the Bushmills malt ladder... and a nice gentle introduction it is too. This was the first modern single malt to join the distillery's standard line-up when it was launched in the mid 1980s. Nicely floral from the classic Bushmills distillate, with some nutty and fruity notes from the mixture of bourbon and sherry wood...
Said to be the first Irish whiskey exclusively designed for the duty free market when it was launched in 1992. Like the Black Bush blend, a very small grain component (around 10%) is used to balance the whiskey. It's matured in both bourbon and sherry wood, giving it plenty of malty spice and fruit. Nice complexity...
This special Bushmills is a mix of the classic Bushmills malt whiskey and Bushmills malt aged entirely in a Caribbean rum cask. We can presume that because it says 'Select' on the label, some thought went into its composition! Rated very highly by whisky writer Jim Murray, it's surprisingly dry and maybe not as fruity as the regular bottlings from this distillery. A once-off bottling for travel retail, it really shows the versatility of Bushmills malt...
A distillery exclusive bottling. Matured in both ex bourbon and ex oloroso sherry casks. Really clean from start to finish. Slightly biscuity with some clove spices...
This is a half and half mix of bourbon and sherry matured malt vatted in port pipes and bottled at 16 years old. It has a typical Bushmills tropical nose, with marzipan, dried fruits and dark chocolate. Many people's favourite Bushmills, it features in Dominic Roskrow's 1001 Whiskies You Must Try Before You Die...
Said to be the first Irish whiskey exclusively designed for the duty free market when it was launched in 1992. Like the Black Bush blend, a very small grain component (around 10%) is used to balance the whiskey. It's matured in both bourbon and sherry wood, giving it plenty of malty spice and fruit. Nice complexity...
A interesting blend of malt and grain whiskeys. The malt aspect of the whiskey is produced using crystal malt. Its Bitter sweet with flavours of roasted toffee, coffee beans and shortbread. Released in February 2008...
Essentially a small batch release every year, the Bushmills 21 is matured bourbon and sherry casks for a total of around 19 years, before being finished off in Madeira casks to take it past its 21 birthday... This one was bottled in 2004, so it was distilled in the early 1980s. The packaging has changed since this was released, but it's more or less the same recipe. It's the oldest regular distillery bottling available...