Teeling Single Grain 750 ml

Teeling Single Grain is distilled from malted and unmalted barley at the Teeling Distillery in Dublin's Liberties district, then fully matured in a single fill of red wine casks — Cabernet Sauvignon barrels sourced from California, rather than the ex-bourbon or ex-rum casks used for most Irish whiskey. That wine-cask maturation is the whole personality of the bottle: dark berry fruit and light tannin over the classic single-grain base of vanilla and honey, with a soft, slightly fruity finish instead of the usual bourbon-barrel sweetness. It's a distinctive entry point for drinkers who already know standard Irish whiskey and want to taste what a different cask does to the category.

How to drink Teeling Single Grain

Serve it neat or with a single ice cube to let the red-wine cask fruit show, since chilling it too hard mutes the berry notes that make this bottle different from other Irish whiskeys. It also makes an interesting stand-in for a fruitier base in an Irish whiskey sour.

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