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TOTALLY TRACEABLE & TRANSPARENT

There’s plenty we would like to share with you about each whiskey. In fact, rather too much for a bottling label – that strange, tiny surface that has been regulated to death.

Which is why drinkers will be able to access a new feature on the website, currently in beta version with more refinements to come.

Every bottle of Waterford whiskey features its own pioneering TÉIREOIR code, which once entered online will reveal a host of unprecedented and engaging content related to the release.

Using rich photography, and drawing upon our unrivalled digital logistics systems that collects thousands of data points, you will be able to explore maps of the place, the harvest, the grower, distillation details as well as view the full spectrum of wood.

Built upon on our own bespoke software that brings together five data systems from farm to bottle, it has been a remarkable project to collate the data for each release: so watch this space.

https://waterfordwhiskey.com/element/the-teireoir-code/

Irish Lowland

Waterford is the new Irish distillery from Mark Reynier, which we all remember from his years at Bruichladdich. His search for terroir – or Tèireoir as he very cleverly put on the label – continues undiminished for his new bottlings, of which the very first releases sold out in a flash. This Ballykicavan matured on a combination of American oak, French oak and French Vin Doux Natural casks. The barley, as the name suggests, comes from one single farm: Ballykilcavan. Hence the moniker Single Farm Origin.

The nose is very young and shows quite some new make-y traits. Luckily I quite like new make. Some sweet barley, farmy scents, freshly cut grass, oats and vanilla. After a few moments some fruity notes appear in the guise of green banana, juicy apricots and lime zest. Some graphite as well. And a touch of rubber, I’m sorry to say. In all honesty, this nose reminds me more of a Scottish Lowland malt then an Irish one.

The body is very creamy and the malt is bittersweet. The sweet barley and citrus fruit return, with some pepper, but the new make-y notes return as well. I can almost taste the mash! Nevertheless, it is pretty good. I’m actually a bit impressed. Vanilla and a sudden uppercut of caramel make it very sweet – more so than the nose promised. It actually turns a bit candy-like.

I get some more unripe banana, but also apples and pears in the surprisingly long, bittersweet and somewhat drying finish.

Not bad for such a young malt, but not great either. Does not feel Irish at all, but that is fine, of course. What bothered me a bit was the note of rubber on the nose and the rather candy-like taste, but the finish made up for all of that. Initially released around 70 EUR.

nose:
cereal and creamy on vanilla cream, honey with its small sweet grains on the top.
on fresh fruit a little crushed, apple forward
a little vegetal return on the artichoke, then a little peach and apricot
mouth:
fairly pronounced spices, the young malt that emerges, a dry woody side, the alcohol arrives with a little almonds, a little bitterness that persists
yellow fruits (pear and cooked banana) finally but fleetingly, pepper comes back and dominates.
final:
spicy, a little woody, cereal yes and peppery, quite short.