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Michael Vaughan's 94-Point
RECOMMENDED BEST BUY
FERCULLEN PREMIUM BLEND IRISH WHISKEY
LCBO 12199 - $57.00
March 27 availability - only 448 bottles in 82 stores
The totally rebuilt Powerscourt Distillery can be traced back to the 9th century. Known in native Gaelic tongue as “FeraCulann”, it is located in the foothold of the Wicklow mountains, close to Dublin. Located in the village of Enniskerry I discvered that the Town Clock was built by the 6th Viscount Powerscourt and was presented to the Village on St. Patrick’s Day 1843.
Now 177 years later discover what Master Distiller
Noel Sweeney has managed to produce.
This remarkable blend of 88% 8-year-old grain whiskey and 12% 16-year old malt whiskey is light yellow-gold in colour.
The refined nose is slightly spicy, honeyed and gently floral with gently toasty, buttery, vanilla notes. On the palate, it is dry, medium bodied and harmonious with refined, gently toasty, warm, ripe plummy-apple flavours and a very attractive, lingering, bright, vanilla-stick-tinged finish
TASTER'S TIP - LET IT BREATHE
ISO tasted neat at room temperature from a recently opened bottle & one just opened the former opened last week was smoother & showed more complexity
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