Teeling out of Ireland recently debuted a cask strength variant of their well received Blackpitts Peated Single Malt, continuing to help revive "ancient way of making Irish whiskey, using smoke created by burning peat or turf, as it is widely known, while malting the barley."
Teeling Blackpitts Peated Single Malt is a new Irish peated single malt whiskey, part of a rare category of this part of the whiskey making world that was once more prevelant.
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Once the first choice of whiskey connoisseurs, Irish pot still whiskey has taken a back seat for years due to revolutions, wars and famine. However, the nation’s number one spirit is undergoing its own revolution with many companies new and old bringing delicious copper pot stills and single malts back from the dead.
If your experience with Irish whiskey has been limited to the blended variety, this collection is an alternative take on the category featuring purely pot-still types and magnificent malts, all coming from from the Emerald Isle. For the full story on the “Pot Luck of the Irish,” see our latest March/April issue of Cigar Aficionado on newsstands March 23.