Single Malt Whiskey, Ireland

A revolution has shaken the whiskey category in 2020: Waterford Distillery! Led by the famous Mark Reynier, the project has put the emphasis back on barley, at the heart of the final aroma of a single malt, thanks to an ambitious triptych Terroir, Traceability and Transparency. Inspired by the greatest winemakers and thanks to the formidable richness of the Irish terroir, coupled with elite and avant-garde production methods, the distillery created the event with a Single Farm Origin range praised by critics like amateurs. The expression of the complexity of a single terroir, a single farm, a single harvest … One place, one farm, at a time!

This year, Mark Reynier and his team are back with a series of 3 new Single Farms, still as successful, precise and complex. This edition was distilled from barley grown and harvested in 2015 by Martin Foley on Hook Head Point in the far south of County Wexford, known for its lighthouse and changeable climate. Strongly marked by the clayey and clayey soil, but also by salty storms, sea fog and ocean breezes, this expression reveals very beautiful spicy (nutmeg, white pepper) and mineral notes which complement wonderfully its malty and greedy character.