Redbreast 1999 Sherry Cask Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey

• First-ever Redbreast single-cask bottling (Single Cask No. 30087).
• Distilled: 2 April 1999
• Cask: Oloroso sherry butt No. 30087 (coopered late 1996 at Antonio Páez Lobato Cooperage, Jerez region) — toasted and seasoned with Oloroso sherry for ~2 years at Páez Morilla Bodega, then filled at Midleton Distillery in early 1999.
• Maturation: 16 years, 147 days in warehouse M15A at Midleton (filled early 1999 — bottled August 2015).
• Bottles from cask: 576
• Release: February 2016 (selected by Billy Leighton, Head Blender, and The Whisky Exchange team)
• Bottled without chill-filtration

Specs

• Size: 750 ml
• Alcohol: 59.9% ABV (119.8 proof)
• Origin: Ireland
• Distillery: Midleton Distillery (Irish Distillers / Pernod Ricard)
• Selected by: Attendees of a special tasting at The Whisky Exchange shop (2015)