Waterford Distillery, producer of essentially the most naturally flavoursome single malts, has as we speak launched its newest bottling in its Heritage barley sequence – Heritage: Goldthorpe.
Heritage: Goldthorpe is a part of a restricted launch of 4,000 bottles and marks the primary time that the barley selection – Goldthorpe – has been used for drinks manufacturing in over 100 years.
The brand new single malt whisky is the newest milestone in Waterford Distillery’s journey to uncover whisky’s most original and complicated flavours by completely different agricultural strategies and represents single malts crafted from resurrected barley varieties.
Heritage: Goldthorpe was initially found in 1889 as a single, fortuitous mutation in a discipline however vanished from the agricultural panorama a long time in the past, to get replaced by higher-yielding, much less flavoursome barley varieties.
Working alongside Minch Maltings and the Irish Division for Agriculture, Meals and Marine Waterford Distillery have spent the final three years upscaling the remaining 50 grams of Goldthorpe to create sufficient barley to sow the seeds in Irish fields and local weather – its terroirs.
This landmark launch gives whisky connoisseurs the primary alternative to style the flavours of Goldthorpe as a single malt whisky in a century, with the primary 12 months’s distillation yielding solely 162 barrels.
Pioneering plant breeder, Dr Hebert Hunter, who impressed the primary Heritage bottling by Waterford Distillery utilizing the 1959 Hunter selection, declared that the Goldthorpe selection had been “among the finest high quality varieties in existence”.
This newest heritage launch blends the very best of contemporary expertise to carry the outdated flavours again to life, matured totally in a mix of 40% first-fill US Oak, 24% Virgin US Oak, 18% Premium French Oak and 18% Vin Doux Naturel casks.
Offering historic flavours to a brand new technology of whisky connoisseurs, the whisky has aromas of lush vegetation, wealthy granola bar, berry compote, pink apple, inexperienced tea, melon, roast beef gravy and prunes, with hints of candy orchard fruits, apples and pears, cream, gentle spiciness, pink berries, honey, cloves and raisins, giving the whisky a protracted dried fruit end.
This restricted yield contributes to the exclusivity of the whisky, making it a one-of-a-kind providing out there.
Neil Conway, head brewer at Waterford Distillery, explains: “Our scientific investigations into the terroir of Irish barley uncovered a flavour uniformity in fashionable strains, main us to revive misplaced historic varieties for his or her wealthy, distinctive profiles.
“The fervour driving our newest restricted version is rooted in a deep respect for custom and a daring curiosity for innovation. By reviving the Nineteenth-century Goldthorpe barley, we’re not simply crafting whisky; we’re reviving a bit of agricultural heritage. Every bottle from this batch is a celebration of historical past, a tribute to the craft, and a present to the way forward for whisky-making.”
Heritage: Goldthorpe is bottled at 50% ABV. As with each Waterford Distillery launch, a singular TÉIREOIR CODE on every bottle offers unprecedented validation and verification of its particular person journey from barley to bottle – harvested, saved, malted, distilled and matured. Each significant element of the whisky is obtainable for full transparency.
Heritage: Goldthorpe is on the market to buy now from waterfordwhisky.com, Grasp of Malt, The Whisky Alternate and worldwide at key retailers, priced at approx. 92/$102/£77 respectively.
