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e historians claim it started in 1276, though if the fable of monks catching distilling with them when they went to become the heathen Picts is true, it could be as distant behind by the 6th century. Authorization was given as whiskey to be legally made in the county in 1608 [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], granting Bushmills to claim that it has been making the material since then - and arranging the bases as some robust craic in 2008!
Bushmills is significantly alter to the additional two Irish distilleries and takes you back to a time when all of Ireland's whiskey only came from pot stills. There repeatedly, this being Ireland, it's also atypical of the traditional Irish pot-still manner insofar as it doesn't use a mix of malted and unmalted barley. But it's no quite like a typical Scottish malt distillery as it uses triple distillation and unpeated malt - though so do Auchentoshan and Springbank's Hazelburn.
It's a complicated process, as main distiller David Quinn explains. 'After distilling the low brandies in the second [alternatively feints] still we take the muscular feints ahead to a third distillation which gives us a distillate at approximately 84%ABV. The languid feints get recycled in the second distillation with the pate and tails from the third. What we're act is leaving behind the heavier appearances of the spirit and shifting the flavour balance to more fragrant, lighter, sweeter fruity character'.
The distillery namely only a few miles from the Giant's Causeway, a odd outcrop of hexagonal basalt pillars that see favor a monstrous pipe apparatus which, fable would have it, was the southern end of a bridge linking Ireland with Fingal's Cave above the Hebridean isle of Staffa. In many ways Bushmills is a modern day bridge between 2 whisk(e)y-making cultures. 'There's a lot of the institution of Irish boiler still whiskey making here,' says David. 'But along creature a single malt we're moving into the Scottish tradition. Maybe we tin claim that we take the best of both traditions! On a nice day we can penetrate Islay [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it's only 16 miles, so that correlate has always been there - maybe starting with priests favor St. Columba'. In more recent times [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], ex-manager Frank McHardy sipped along the sea to Campbeltown's Springbank distillery - no surprise he's backward the triple distilled, unpeated Hazelburn!
Where Bushmills differs from any Scottish distillery is by being home to blends as well as single malts - most importantly the noble Black Bush, a blend of 5Oper penny Bushmills single malt and grain from Midleton. Bushmills follows the Irish Distillers' policy of using a tall percentage of first-fill sherry and Bourbon wood, both of them wood types packed with powerful flavours. The truth that David's light distillate isn't drowned out by these huge flavours is testimony to some high-class blending capabilities.
'Getting the correct equilibrium is vital. You could dispute that with a delicate morale it's even more vital that you obtain that flavour in correct balance with the wood. It too method we must mustp-quality wood. You can spend all the time in the earth making a good distillate and then lose it by using sub-standard cooperage.' This shows best in the Triple Wood, a single malt initially elderly in ex-Bourbon and sherry wood for 16 years before the two elements are married attach and then recasked into port pipes for up to a annual. Innovative, modern, already in touch with the past - just like David and his crew.
TASTING NOTES
Black Bush
Sweet, toffee-like snout with plenty of sherry memoranda in testify. The palate is silky and soft, balancing ripe malt, raisined sherry wood and wealthy fruitiness
Bushmills 10-year-old
Clean and frail, with apple blossom, clover and bran. Lightly creamy on the palate, with some almond glue and moderate grassiness on the finish. Pleasant and soft.
Bushmills Triple Wood
Ripe and full on the nose. A savor of molasses, then some raisin mingled with powerful, plummy fruits. Well balanced