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Maturation from 3 different barrels including Port Pipes gives us one of the best Irish Whiskeys ever. Layers of fruit and sweetness are waiting to be enjoyed.
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Bushmills 16 is a hugely popular member of the core Bushmills single malt family. Matured in American ex-bourbon barrels and Spanish oloroso sherry casks, it’s finished for a minimum of 12 months in Portuguese port pipes. This terrific combination of three wood types and three spirits allows this triple-distilled Bushmills 16 single malt whiskey to carve out a perfectly singular identity alongside its siblings.
Bushmills 16 is built upon the distillery’s signature casking of ex-bourbon and oloroso sherry casks, but it’s the additional maturation in Portuguese port pipes that gives this fine single malt its standout flavour. Port is a fortified wine produced in the Douro Valley in Portugal. It’s sweet, dark red and viscous, and in its home country is often served as an accompaniment to desserts.
When it meets Bushmills 16-year-old, it blends perfectly with the heavy vanilla of bourbon, the dark, ripe fruits of oloroso sherry and the rich, tannic notes of port. Port is distinctive from other wines due to its intense flavours and deep aromas. It’s sweeter and heavier, too, due to the addition of distilled grape spirits used in its production to fortify it. In the cask, it brings all of these attributes to the Bushmills 16.
Port is heavy on aroma and in Bushmills 16 it lifts the dark fruit and vanilla of the bourbon and sherry, elevating it with ripe berries, roast almonds and treacle.
You’ll find treacle on the palate too, wrapped in lots of wood spice, rich vanilla and baked peach and plum notes.
It has a long finish, with layers of milk chocolate, walnuts and jammy berries leading its silky smooth texture.
Bushmills 16 is ruby red in colour, an attribute that’s infused from the port parcels and oloroso sherry casking. It’s triple-distilled, so it pours smoothly and with a rich, velvety texture. This is an easy-drinking and wonderfully oily single malt.
Bushmills 16 is wonderful on its own, but when paired with chocolate desserts or rich, fruit- infused gravies over barbecued meats, it elevates everything. This is a whiskey to savour slowly at the peak of a meal.
If you enjoy Bushmills 16, you may wish to try another in the Bushmills family: Bushmills 14. This slightly younger member of the core Bushmills family excludes the sherry element entirely by maturing in ex-bourbon and Malaga casks, creating a wonderfully decadent single malt.
If the port maturation is to your liking, then you could look to Scotland and Tomatin 14. This double-distilled single malt from the Highland whisky maker is a superb example of port maturation.
Tyrconnell 10 is another Irish single malt that’s finished in port casks. Double distilled primarily in ex-bourbon, it carries its port personality beautifully.
Bushmills 16 is bottled at 40% (80 proof), which is the preferred alcohol level for many of its core single malt releases. The master distiller, Colum Egan, reportedly prefers this ABV level to allow the true flavour of the casks to shine through.
Each of the cask types used to create Bushmills 16 play their own part in the creation of this rich and complex single malt. With the 16-year-old, the port maturation is a crucial factor, bringing flavours of treacle, roast almonds and a thick, viscous texture to the ruby-red single malt whiskey. These flavour and texture notes play perfectly with the deep vanilla, cinnamon and burnt sugar of the bourbon barrel and the ripe summer fruits of the oloroso sherry.
Yes, Bushmills 16 is a triple-distilled single malt. Each of the core single malts in the Bushmills family is triple-distilled and aged in different casks. Currently, there are five core single malt bottlings in the family: a 10-, 12-, 14-, 16- and 21-year-old.
All Irish whiskey is made using just three simple ingredients: water, grains and yeast. The water in Bushmills single malts comes from Saint Columb’s Rill, a tributary of the Bushmills River that runs right alongside one of the oldest parts of the distillery building. Bushmills uses 100% Irish malted barley. Unlike its counterpart in Cork, Irish Distillers – the home of Jameson – while Bushmills only makes single malts and blends. It chooses not to make single pot still whiskey, which is a combination of malted and unmalted barley.
Bushmills uses a standard distiller’s yeast to ferment its mash bill for around 45 to 50 hours before triple distillation in copper pot stills. It is then matured for 16 years in ex-bourbon and sherry casks with at least one year in port pipes.
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