Glendalough Sherry Cask Finish Poitin 700ML

ABV 40%

Glendalough Sherry Cask Finish Poiti­n could be the first coloured poitín commercially available, ever. We take our original poitín and let it cosey up to some french oak, previously used in sherry production. It extracts some more depth of flavour with a clearer wood finish, and added touches of honey and raisin. The extra time in the pre-loved wood brings the already smooth Glendalough towards a velvety mouth-feel with a crystal clear, light-amber colour. Poitín was first made with expertise and reverence, around the 6th century, by Irish monks, the master distillers of their time. In 1661 it was outlawed and forced into the wilderness, where it enjoyed an illicit romanticism. Remote glens where the winds swept through, broke up the smoke from the peat fires, and kept prying eyes, and the law, away. Over the next few hundred years it lived in whispered infamy between chancers, bowsies and divils. Amongst winks, nods and backhanders. Until now. Glendalough Poitin Com