Connemara 1992 Single Cask

Connemara 16 Year Old 1991 Single Cask

Connemara is the peaty whiskey from Cooley, since a few years in hands of Beam (and this year most likely in the hands of Suntory). This single cask was bottled especially for The Nectar Belgium and already appeared in 2007. Apparently this was one of the first five casks produced in the starting year 1991. Today it is all but impossible to find....

Score 87/100

Connemara 12 Year Old Peated

Did the Irish invent whisky? I don't really know for sure. But I do know they're pretty good at this game and this peated Connemara is an example of that. The delicate honey and sugarcane nose is quite fresh and wafts lazily over the smoky peat on the bottom. Sway it gently and up comes a zing of bright lemon. Very playful. You know the distiller...

Score 86/100

Connemara Peated

Connemara has a few gems. Remember the Turf Mor or the Sherry Finish or some of their single casks? But let us return now to their entry level malt, the Connemara Peated Single Malt. I tried it many years ago and was not blown away, but you know as well as I do that wisdom comes with years. How knows? Maybe this new batch is much better. The first...

Score 79/100

Connemara Peated

A barren plain of rocks earmarked by the raging winds of the Atlantic, an eerie no-man’s-land of moors, bogs and shimmering blue lakes. How the hell did the East-Irish distiller Cooley think they could capture the essence of the land using nothing but Scottish peat? When trying Connemara (the 12yo) for the first time, in an Irish pub in the town...

Score 78/100