Tasting Notes:
- Eye: Mid-golden color with a hint of ruby red.
- Nose: Sweet, candy-like. Vanilla and cask influence, woody. Buttery/marzipan.
- Taste: Sweet, ripe blackberry and honey. Hint of tartness, a little elderberry. Hint of white pepper spice.
- Finish: Creamy mouth feel: coats the mouth nicely. Mid-bodied. Decent length, strong.
Additional Notes:
- The whiskey is named in honor of Hugh “The Great Earl’ O’Neill, a celebrated general.
- Leaving Ireland in the Flight of the Earls in 1607, he died in Rome nine years later, where he is still buried and immoratalised in a fresco in Vatican City.
- Hugh O’Neill was a friend to kings, popes, and leaders.
- The whiskey is triple-casked. Casked in Rechar and Virgin oak, then finished in Italian Sangiovese casks.
