Waterford Woodbrook Peated 2019/2023

Since its foundation by Mark Reynier, the Irish Waterford distillery has modelled its approach to whisky production on wine production. The distillery team relies not only on barley sourced from regional farmers but also on scientific methods, such as distilling the distillate on an olfactometer. Waterford's main focus is on capturing the terroir and biodynamics, which includes the natural factors of land, cultivation, barley type, climate and season. The barley for Woodbrook Peated comes from farmer Michael Carey's Woodbrook Farm. With this smoky bottling, the distillery is returning to the origins of Irish whiskey production. In order to lose as little of the 'terroir' as possible, Waterford whiskey is only distilled twice, unlike other Irish whiskeys. Maturation takes place in four different types of cask and Waterford was the first distillery to use Irish peat from Ballyteague in County Kildare since the 1850s.