After Monday’s detour into old-school Jameson — with the 1980s 12-year-old reminding us of Midleton’s earlier output (and the even older 1940s version still tied to Bow Street) — we stay firmly within the Midleton universe, but shift gears toward one of its most celebrated single pot still brands: Redbreast.
This time, the line-up pairs two very different expressions of the style: the Redbreast Cuatro Barriles, with its cask-driven, modern experimental edge, and the 21-year-old, long considered one of the benchmarks for mature Irish pot still whiskey. Together, they offer a useful contrast between innovation and maturity within the same distillery framework, and a chance to see how far the Redbreast profile can stretch — from active wood influence to the layered complexity that only extended ageing can bring.
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