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Red Spot

Red Spot
15 Year Old Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey

Category: Irish Single Pot Still Whiskey

Date Tasted:
Country: Ireland
Alcohol: 46%
95 Points
Gold Medal
Exceptional
$150

Red Spot
15 Year Old Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey

Category: Irish Single Pot Still Whiskey

Date Tasted:
Country: Ireland
Alcohol: 46%
Amber color. Aromas and flavors of figs, dates, and buttered honey cookies, dried berries, dried red flower potpourri, toffee, christmas cake, black tea, and chinese five spice with an oily, lively, bone-dry medium-full body and a tingling, distinctive, long finish with notes of red fruit, barrel spices and orange peel, and toffee maple syrup. A delicious Whiskey using excellent casks; sip all day or make a very fine highball.

Tasting Info

Spirits Glass Style: Complex, Fruity, Candied & Herbal
Aroma Aroma: figs, dates, and buttered honey cookies, dried berries, dried red flower potpourri, toffee, christmas cake, black tea, and chinese five spice
Taste Flavor: Same as aromas with notes of red fruit, barrel spices and orange peel, and toffee maple syrup
Smoothness Smoothness: Tingling
Enjoy Enjoy: in cocktails, neat, on the rocks and with cigars
Cocktail Cocktails: Irish Coffee, Hot Toddy, Whiskey Smash
Bottom Line Bottom Line: A delicious Whiskey using excellent casks; sip all day or make a very fine highball.

The Producer or Importer

Pernod Ricard USA

The Producer or  Importer
250 Park Avenue, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10177
USA
1 914-848-4800

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Irish Single Pot Still Whiskey

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Serve in a Glencairn Scotch Whisky Glass
Irish Single Pot Still Whiskey is an in Irish Whiskey made at a single distillery from a mixed mash of malted barley and unmalted barley in a single pot still. It is made with a minimum of 30% malted and 30% unmalted barley, and it is the use of the unmalted barley as well as the production resulting from a single distillery in a single pot that helps give it a distinct spiciness knows as ‘pot still character’; Irish Single Pot Still is also the only style of whiskey exclusively made in Ireland.