Single Malt Whiskey, Ireland

This 100% Irish Single Malt develops a more gourmet character than the 1.1 edition thanks to a more marked use of American oak barrels, while maintaining the malty and spicy style of this clay-limestone terroir.

Barley, at the origin of the complex aromas of Single Malts, is influenced by the soil on which it grows. By the earth which nourishes its roots, by the microclimate thanks to which it develops, by its terroir. This long underestimated truth is at the heart of the Waterford project, initiated in the Irish city of the same name, by the famous Mark Reynier.

Inspired by the greatest winegrowers in the world, Waterford relentlessly transposes to Single Malt the same intellectual approach, the same methodology and the same rigor. Favored by the exceptional richness of the Irish terroir but also thanks to a high-tech industrial tool, the Single Malts Waterford pushes the boundaries of authenticity and traceability.

After a long fermentation, slowly distilled and aged in different exceptional oak barrels, selected for their quality and profile, each limited edition is a Single Farm. The expression of the complexity of a single terroir, a single farm, a single harvest. One place, one farm, at a time!

Using 100% Irish barley, recognized as the most qualitative in the world, the new Single Farm Origin range is a series of limited editions of natural whiskeys with ultra-sharp provenance that reveal the Irish terroir farm by farm, place by place. They are the expression of precision and rarity, revealing the aromas and flavors of barley sourced from small Irish farms and varying with each harvest.

This second edition of Ballykilcavan has been distilled from barley grown by David Walsh-Kemmis in County Laois, next to an old wooded region, on one of the best terroirs for growing barley for malting. Distilled in 2016, bottled at 50%, without coloring or cold filtration, this 100% Irish Single Malt develops a more gourmet character than the 1.1 edition thanks to a more marked use of American oak barrels, while retaining the malty style. and spicy of this clay-limestone terroir.