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“Gentle to start with, but this one is a builder.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 51.15 is a single cask of Bushmills, in Northern Ireland, 16 years old, bottled at 56.4%. Every Society bottle numbered 51.x is from Bushmills.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
In County Antrim, near the Giant's Causeway, Bushmills takes its water from Saint Columb's Rill, a tributary of the River Bush. The distilling company dates from 1784, though the label carries 1608, the year James I licensed whiskey-making in the district. In 1890 it sent its own steamship, SS Bushmills, to deliver whiskey across the Atlantic. Triple distillation gives a light, fruity, honeyed malt. Proximo's.