Nose: Flashes of apple with hints of vanilla & honey over a distinctive pot still base. Palate: Gently spiced with a burst of ginger & butterscotch with background notes of toasted oak. Finish: Long Elegant finish with subtle notes of milk chocolate & almonds. Writer? Tears is a unique old Irish Pot still Whiskey. It is a vatting of Single Malt & Single Pot Still whiskeys. Distilled from 60% malt & 40% pot Still (No Grain). Writers Tears is triple distilled, non-peated & matured & aged in American Oak bourbon casks. A gold medal winner at the International Spirits Challenge in London & one of the highest rated Irish Whiskeys in Jim Murrays Iconic Whiskey Bible Altogether a very unusual Irish Whiskey, a throwback to the last century where spiced Pure Pot Still whiskey was married with Floral Single Malt Jim Murray. It has also been added to Ian Buxtons publication 101 Whiskeys to try before you die.