Teeling Revival IV 15 Year Old Muscat Cask Irish Whiskey 46%

Description

Teeling Revival IV 15 Year Old Muscat Cask Irish Whiskey, as the name suggests, is volume number 4 in Teelling Whiskey’s limited Release of Revival bottlings The The Revival range was first launched in 2015 to celebrate the opening of the Teeling Whiskey Distillery. Volume 1 was a 15 year old Rum cask finish, Volume 2 was a 13 year old Calvados finish and Volume 3 was a 14 year old with a Pineau des Charentes cask finish.

The Teeling Whiskey Distillery is the first distillery to be built and opened in Dublin for over 125 years. Teeling Whiskey Company is a new independent Irish whiskey company. It is owned by the Teeling family who have a long history of distilling in Ireland stretching back to 1782. More recently John Teeling founded Cooley Distillery in 1987 which is responsible for producing Irish Whiskey brands including Kilbeggan, Connemara, Tyrconnell and Greenore. Cooley Distillery was sold to American Spirits giant Beam Inc in 2012, which was since bought by Suntory to become Beam Suntory. Crucially the Teelings were able to secure a good amount of young and ageing whiskey as part of the deal to enable them to establish the Teeling Whiskey Company in 2012. After the sale of Cooley Distillery there was been a big hole in the Irish Whiskey landscape for a good independent Whiskey brand. Teeling felt that, although Irish Whiskey is one of the fastest growing spirits categories in the world, there was not much variation in terms of styles or flavours. The Teeling Whiskey Company have set out to change this by producing small batch whiskeys with great personality and character through their use of different oaking regimes. Thus the Teeling Blended Whiskey is finished in ex Nicaraguan rum casks and their fantastic Grain whiskey is finished in ex-red wine casks from California.

Teeling Revival IV 15 Year Old Muscat Cask Irish Whiskey consists of 15 Year Old Single Malt Irish whiskey initially matured in Bourbon barrels for the first 14 Years before it was given an extra year of maturation in ex-Muscat casks which creates a truly unique Irish whiskey taste experience. It is bottled at 46% with no chill filtration. Presented in a very smart decanter style bottling and premium gift packaging.

I think this is the first time I have seen a whiskey with a Muscat cask finish!

Read about a visit to the Teeling Whiskey Distillery.