Inspired by Ireland’s ancient distilling traditions, Connemara’s smooth sweet malt taste and complex peat flavours makes it a truly unique Irish whiskey. Inspired by Ireland's ancient distilling traditions of drying malt barley over peat fires, Connemara is Ireland's only peated single malt.

Tasting Notes: Nose is smooth with a honey sweet start, followed by malt and fruit flavours giving way to full bodied peat. My girlfriend said she could smell it across the table and found it a bit overpowering but it is indeed as intended. The smoke rising through the malted barley during this drying process confers the whiskey with a distinct peaty flavour and aroma. Silky smooth with a honey sweet start, followed by malt and fruit flavours giving way to full bodied peat. In the 18th and 19th centuries distillers in this area produced distinctively flavoured whiskeys from malted baley kilned over peat fires.

Inspired by Ireland's ancient distilling traditions, Connemara's smooth sweet malt taste and complex peat flavours makes it a truly unique Irish whiskey. I love when friends of mine travelling bring me a present of a bottle of this wonderful Irish made Whiskey. Managing Director of Cooley Distillery, David Hynes and chairman John Teeling resurrected the traditional Irish custom of drying the malted barley over peat fires with this peated single malt.

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We treat all personalised bottles individually, taking our time and experience to set out your message to create the most impactful bottle decoration possible. So when tough times ground its gears to a halt, the town came together to save the whiskey that built the town. All reviews about taste and smoothness are a bit of a waste of time if your whiskey doesn't make you happy.

To avoid these issues, we would recommend using a different browser, such as Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome. This Whiskey has been created to show off the traditional use of turf (peat) as a drying method in the Connemara region of Ireland.I’ll admit I was skeptical at first, especially after sipping a Knappogue Castle 12, but I’ve slowly come around. I feel like sometimes when I’m having a really peaty scotch, that I miss the scotch while I’m having the glass because of the overwhelming peat. It may not be reproduced in any way whatsoever without Ocado Limited's prior consent, nor without due acknowledgement. Named after the wild and remote part of western Ireland Connemara is, unusually for Irish Whiskeys, a peated single malt.

There’s the familiar sweet and freshness I’ve found in many good Irish malts, coupled with the peat, brine and smoke that are surprisingly complimentary. Once a bottle has been engraved the cut glass is then infilled with a special decorative silver paste. Due the nature of our site, we can only guarantee compatibility with modern browsers - you may encounter problems on some pages, especially in the checkout process. Inspired by the 18th century art of drying malting barley over peat fires, Connemara® possesses a distinct peaty flavour and aroma,instilling a delicate smokiness and smooth, sweet taste.

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