3 years, 11 months, 18 days old, fermentation time 150.5 hours. Sowing the barley (03/19/2015), harvesting the barley (08/17/2015), the arrival of the barley in the distillery (05/10/2015) - and a lot more information is about the code on the bottle on the distillery's homepage available. What more could you want than a whiskey nerd. If he tastes what he tastes at just under four years old, then you can be curious how he will taste with, say: 10 years.

Comparison Bannow Island (BI) / Ballykilcavan (B)

nose
BI more floral and fruity than B, B in comparison, more chocolatey and "tastier" in the nose. B shows a slightly sour note in comparison, which he did not show in the solo tasting. B "darker" than BI, B more towards the forest floor, BI more the spring flower meadow.

taste
B malty, more chocolate than BI. BI also remains in comparison with its leading floral and fruity note. In comparison, B looks “darker” than in solo tasting. Here even a little damp forest floor and mushrooms.

Finish
The two don’t give each other any intensity in the finish, everyone cuts a really good figure in their own way.

Conclusion comparison
Different fields, different tastes. That was what Mr. Reynier wanted to prove. Proof successful. TEIREoir. Especially for Ireland with EIRE in the word "terroir". While in solo tasting m. E. the pendulum swings slightly in favor of Bannow Island, it can be found in the direct comparison in the middle of both bottlings. In anticipation of what will come ...