Waterford Single Farm Origin - Ballymorgan 1.1

- Bottler: Waterford
- Distillery: Waterford
- Alcohol content: 50% vol.
- Distillation: 2016
- Bottling: 2020
- Declared age: 3
- Equipment: GP
- Variety: Single Malt Whisky
- Cask type: American first-fill and fresh oak casks, French premium oak casks, casks seasoned with Vin Doux Naturel
- Bottling: Non chill-filtered
- Coloring: natural color
- Origin: Ireland

Tasting Notes:

Nose: Green apple, milk chocolate, malt, pears, dried fruit, rhubarb and pudding.
 
Taste: Green apple coated in caramel, cloves, vanilla pudding, a spicy tingle, with liquorice and mint chocolate.
 
Finish: A gentle warmth lingers in the mouth, slowly fading and transitioning to oiliness with spicy chocolate.

"Today I bought a distillery – it’s good to be back," Mark Reynier announced in a tweet in 2014. Six years later, his Waterford distillery enriches the whisky world with distillates that are the result of the radical implementation of terroir. In line with the principle known from the wine world, the Irish barley for Waterford is cultivated, stored, malted, and distilled separately. Because: Terroir, that is the realization that soil composition, sun exposure, or location lead to clear differences – not only in the barley itself, but also in the aroma of single malts.

Each Waterford bottling explores a location in the Irish core region for barley cultivation, where the distillery is located. Terroir by terroir, the exclusive "Single Farm Origins" represent their place of origin in taste. For this, Reynier and Co. are currently working with 72 farms. For example, Ballykilcavan and Bannow Island, whose barley thrives protected by picturesque old forests on the one hand, and is exposed to salty Atlantic winds on the coast on the other. Ballykilcavan Edition 1.1 and Bannow Island Edition 1.1, Waterford's pioneering spirits, sold out very quickly due to high demand. Now the distillery is following up with new editions of the two completely different terroirs. Ballykilcavan Edition 1.2 and Bannow Island Edition 1.2 are as individual and complex as their predecessors. Also limited, they differ in the composition of the casks and the slightly longer maturation period. 

They are complemented by two further single-farm bottlings. The barley from Sheestown in County Kilkenny grows on a hilly terroir of well-drained clay soil. It is the distillation base for Waterford's honey-sweet and spicy Sheestown Edition 1.1. In the rain shadow of the Wicklow Mountains, Robert Milne's family has been cultivating the fertile fields for five generations, whose barley was distilled in 2016 to create the fruity and tingling Ballymorgan Edition 1.1. The whiskies are bottled at 50% vol. and in natural form without colorants, chill filtration, or additives.