A fabulous eleven year-old Irish Single Malt finished in ex-Rum casks with exotic notes.
The Ryan family is filled with characters covering six generations in the Whiskey business — from owning public houses to farming the barley and distilling the Spirits. Eunan Ryan started working in the family pubs at the age of thirteen — obviously this was before the advent of pesky child labor laws on such things. But today he runs the family Whiskey businesses, along with his Jack Ryan Whiskey Company in Dublin. The company was founded in 1913 and calls itself "Whiskey Finishers" — acquiring rare stocks and orphan casks, finishing them, and bottling them independently.
The name is a long one — Jack Ryan Haddington 11 Year Old Single Malt Irish Whiskey — and it tells you a LOT, but not everything you need to know. Yes, this is a triple pot-stilled Irish Single Malt aged for eleven years. And those years were spent in ex-Bourbon casks. But it was also finished for several months in ex-Rum casks, bringing a lighter, exotic complexity to the palate. And as you would expect from Jack Ryan, it is bottled at a perfect 46% ABV, so all the flavors dance.
Smartass Corner:
The Whiskey gets its "Haddington" nickname from Haddington Road — the address of the company in Dublin. So, you know it’s something they are exceptionally proud of.