Single Malt Whiskey, Ireland

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. Favoured 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 flavours of barley sourced from small Irish farms and varying with each harvest.

This first edition of Ballymorgan uses barley cultivated by Robert Milne in eastern Ireland, where loamy and clay soils make up one of the most fertile soil for the growth of this cereal. Distilled in 2016, bottled at 50%, without colouring or cold filtration, this 100% Irish Single Malt develops a very malty character, with pronounced notes of chocolate and caramel, sublimated by a touch of orchard fruit and spices sweet.