Ah, Writers’ Tears — the whiskey for those moments when the blank page is staring back at you like your mother-in-law at Christmas dinner.
This isn’t just any whiskey, no. It’s a romantic tragedy in a glass — a marriage (the kind that never ends in divorce) between Aged Single Pot Still and Single Malt Irish whiskey. Distilled entirely from barley, both malted and unmalted which is to say, barley that’s been pampered and barley that’s been left to find itself.
It’s triple distilled — because Irish whiskey likes to be smooth, unlike your Uncle Declan after three pints and a slow dance. It’s non-peated (no smoke, thank you very much), matured in Flame Charred American Oak bourbon casks — or as we like to say, barrels with a bit of a temper.
Nose: Flashes of apple and hints of vanilla — it’s like an orchard had a fling with a bakery.
Taste: Gently spiced, with ginger and orchard fruits. Think of it as your gran’s fruitcake if she’d added just a dash of rebellion.
Finish: Long, elegant, and dark chocolatey — like your ex who went to Paris “to find herself” and never came back.
An award-winning whiskey, and rightly so — it’s been featured in 101 Whiskeys to Try Before You Die, which is convenient, because you might actually feel like a new person after a few sips.
Because sometimes, when the words won’t come, you need something that writes the story for you — or at least helps you forget it for a while.
