Connemara 12 Year Old
70cl
/
40% Vol
The 12-year-old edition of Connemara single malt has a full, rounded and complex flavour that is both smooth and smoky at the same time. The peat smoke is well integrated and is perhaps a little less pronounced than with the standard bottling and the cask strength. Only limited amounts of Connemara 12 Year Old are made each year, partly due to the popularity of the NAS version, which sucked up the stocks of the peated Cooley malt before it could reach 12 years of age. It's well worth trying for anyone who's a fan of Scotch whiskey and wants to dip their toe into Irish.
Connemara 12 Year Old
€69.95
Ex Tax: €56.87
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Product Details
Tasting Notes from Celtic Whiskey Shop and Wines on the Green
Nose
Fresh and lively. Lemon and orange zest with a touch of creamy vanilla. Some restrained and harmonious peat smoke.
Palate
Initially sweet and fruity but with some very welcome smoke. Flavours of pears, apples, vanilla cream and a touch of gingery, spicy oak. Quite light in body with some typical Bourbon cask character.
Colour
Very pale yellow. Obviously not coloured with caramel!
Fact Sheet
Distillery
Cooley Distillery
Fluid
70cl
Ingredients
Pure peated malt, non coloured
Alcohol %
40%
Types of Barrel used for Aging
Almost Entirely Bourbon Casks
Producer
The Kilbeggan Distilling Company
Serving Suggestion
Serving Suggestion
Best served neat or with just a little water
Awards and/or Press Quotes
Irish Whiskey Awards
Gold Medal Winner - Best Irish Single Malt (12 Years & Younger) 2018
2008
Gold Medal, International Wine & Spirit Competition
2009
Gold Medal & Best in Class, International Wine & Spirit Competition
FAQs
No. Connemara is a single malt Irish whiskey, meaning it is made from 100% malted barley distilled in pot stills at a single distillery, Cooley in County Louth. What distinguishes it from other Irish single malts is that a portion of the barley is peated, making it the only commercially available peated Irish single malt. Single pot still whiskey, by contrast, uses a mash of both malted and unmalted barley and is a style associated primarily with Midleton Distillery.
Yes, particularly for peat lovers who find Islay Scotch too aggressive. Connemara occupies a unique position as Ireland's only heavily peated single malt. The Cooley distillery character adds fruit and light spirit notes that coexist with the earthy, medicinal peat smoke in a way that feels distinctly Irish rather than Scottish. The Peated Single Malt and Turf Mór expressions are the most worthwhile in the range, the latter offering a noticeably more assertive phenolic smoke character.
Connemara is distilled at Cooley Distillery in Riverstown, County Louth, on the east coast of Ireland, not in the Connemara region of County Galway that the name evokes. Cooley is owned by Beam Suntory and is the only Irish distillery producing a peated single malt whiskey. The peat used to dry a proportion of the malted barley gives Connemara its distinctive phenolic smoke and iodine character, setting it apart from all other Irish whiskeys.
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