Quick Fire Whisky Tasting Notes

Method and Madness Mulberry Wood Finish

Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey

46% ABV

Nose: Toffee apples, soft ripe conference pears, orange peel, Luxardo maraschino cherries, bourbon steeped prunes, summer berries, candy floss, cream soda, digestive biscuits, toasted pine nuts, polished oak, sawdust, wood spice, ground ginger and a tease of soy sauce.

Palate: Poached pears dusted with a pinch of cayenne pepper, pink lady apples, blood orange, summer berries, M&S morello cherry pie, digestive biscuits, Fry's chocolate cream, ground ginger, cinnamon, anise, white pepper and wave upon wave of wood spice.

Finish: A reassuringly rounded long finish, that keeps the palate alive with its sassy spiced self.

Summary: Another absolute belter from Method and Madness. It’s not the most complex whiskey to date from the experimental brand based at the Midleton distillery, but it’s no less majestic than any of their previous bottlings. I can’t wait to see what magic they apply to the method and madness of their next release!

Hinch Distillery Craft & Casks Tweet Tasting

More Irish whiskey fuelled Tweet Tasting dramfotainment you say? Well allow us as ever to very gladly oblige!

Continuing our teeming throng of industry leading Twitter trending Tweet Tastings (the original series of virtual tastings) we’re delighted to announce that on May 12th, we’re teaming up again with our friends at the County Down – Northern Ireland based Hinch Distillery, to pour and explore our way through their dramspankingly new Craft & Casks series.

Hinch Distillery’s Craft & Casks, is a new collaboration with two Ulster based breweries; Whitewater Brewery in Co Down and Kinnegar Brewery in Co Donegal, and on the night we’ll be sharing, sipping and savouring their new trio of blended whiskeys, which have been finished in Imperial Stout, Irish Red Rye and Rye Export Stout barrels.

Full details to follow, but if you fancy sampling a trio of tasty Irish craft beer finished sensory stories click here to register your interest by emailing your name, address, mobile number, date of birth and Twitter handle. Please remember to mark the subject line of your email: #HinchDistillery

The closing date to register is April 23rd, and if you are registering to take part please make sure that you will actually be free on the night!

Even if you're not one of the selected Tweet Tasters, it'd be great to have you following the evening’s dramfotainment. So we look forward to seeing you over on Twitter on May 12th from 7pm BST via #HinchDistillery

For more info on Hinch Distillery, visit: hinchdistillery.com

Registration open to over 21's only!

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The Whisky Wire's 11th Birthday Competition

Would you believe it, this week we’re celebrating 11 years of The Whisky Wire, and it’d only be rude not to celebrate by giving away something suitably celebratory and sipsational!

So, in addition to raising a glass and thanking each and every one of you for all of your support over the last 11 years, we’re giving one of our followers the chance of winning a bottle of one of our favourite 11 Year Old whiskies - from our own collection, in the form of the Whisky Works Quartermaster; a blended Scotch whisky, comprised of Highland grain and Speyside single malt whiskies.

To be in with a chance of winning a bottle of the Whisky Works Quartermaster click here to email us with your contact details and date of birth, along with the phrase that dramming pays:

“Way hay and sip, sip, hooray,

it’s The Whisky Wire’s 11th Birthday”

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If you’re on Twitter, you can also follow us via @TheWhiskyWire and RT one of our related competition tweets for another chance to win!

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Competition closes at 23:59 on April 30th 2021. You have to be aged 21 years or over to enter!

Good Luck and here’s to another 11 years of Dramfotainment!