Waterford Lakefield Edition 1.1 Irish Single Malt Whiskey / 50% / 0.7l

Waterford Distillery is an investment by Mark Reynier, previously one of the co-owners of the Bruichladdich distillery.

In 2014, he purchased an old brewery and adapted it to distill whisky. The plant is equipped with two stills and one distillation column, and the priority is malt whisky production. In the summer of 2020, the Single Farm Origin Series debuted, containing whiskies distilled from barley from single Irish farmers. Here we present the first edition of Waterford Lakefield, a whisky distilled in 2017 from barley grown by Seamus Duggan in County Laois. For maturation, barrels made of American oak (46%), the so-called "virgin oak" (23%), French oak barrels (15%) and barrels from sweet French wine (Vin doux Naturel, 16%) were used, and it lasted 3 years, 7 months and 28 days.

Nose: freshly baked bread, crème brûlée, toffee, milk chocolate, apples, rhubarb pie, walnuts, hints of hay, potpourri and pine needles.

Taste: vanilla cream, honey, caramel, pralines, lemon jam, honeydew melon, cloves, a pinch of cinnamon and white pepper.

Finish: medium long, with notes of milk chocolate, nougat, white pepper, cloves, hay and oak.