NOTE: This forum is no longer active. This is an archive copy of the forum as it was on 10 March 2018.

Question on Connemara singles casks?

Need to find out about your dusty old bottle? Ask here.
Discussion on Collectable Whiskey.

Question on Connemara singles casks?

Postby kurtbenoit » Tue Nov 30, 2010 11:25 pm

How come the newly released 18 year old Connemara Single cask has less than 70 bottles but the 17 year old from last year has approx 300. I'm leaving myself open to being outed as a complete idiot here but I'm very curious.
kurtbenoit
Rundlet Cask
 
Posts: 112
Joined: Sun Aug 29, 2010 2:24 pm

Re: Question on Connemara singles casks?

Postby JohnM » Tue Nov 30, 2010 11:40 pm

I'd say they are sharing the barrel with someone else, although I don't know. A bourbon barrel will yield much less bottles than a sherry cask, of course, but 70 is still very low, especially at 46%.
JohnM
Fully mature Cask
 
Posts: 1634
Joined: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:02 pm

Re: Question on Connemara singles casks?

Postby TheWhiskeyBro » Wed Dec 01, 2010 12:34 am

Yes, this is quite common, a cask is shared amongst a group of retailers, each claims exclusivity in the form of their name appearing on the label but with the same cask number. In fairness Cooley haven't done this too often, however numerous examples of Bushmill's single casks being shared.

I'm sure we'll discover in time who has taken up the slack in this cask.
TheWhiskeyBro
Hogshead
 
Posts: 962
Joined: Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:44 am
Location: Sandyford, Dublin

Re: Question on Connemara singles casks?

Postby IainB » Wed Dec 01, 2010 1:27 am

Who's saying they have 70?

I can think of at least 3 places in Ireland that probably would stock it - CWS, Fox's and the distillery shop in Kilbeggan. I imagine Fox's wouldn't stock many.

Then Royal Mile Whiskies often carry Tyrconnell single cask whiskeys. These 4 could go a long way towards using up a single cask.
IainB
Hogshead
 
Posts: 976
Joined: Thu Jul 02, 2009 3:48 pm

Re: Question on Connemara singles casks?

Postby kurtbenoit » Wed Dec 01, 2010 12:34 pm

CWS are the only one I see stocking the 18 year old, they're the ones saying 70 bottles and also saying it's exclusive to them.
kurtbenoit
Rundlet Cask
 
Posts: 112
Joined: Sun Aug 29, 2010 2:24 pm

Re: Question on Connemara singles casks?

Postby bredman » Wed Dec 01, 2010 4:11 pm

Could it also be a cask that has had a leak? This must happen from time to time.


Pete
User avatar
bredman
Bourbon Barrel
 
Posts: 352
Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:54 pm

Re: Question on Connemara singles casks?

Postby JohnM » Wed Dec 01, 2010 4:46 pm

kurtbenoit wrote:CWS are the only one I see stocking the 18 year old, they're the ones saying 70 bottles and also saying it's exclusive to them.


I've seen stockists in Beligum get half casks, I think from Cooley, before too. Or could be the whisky exchange, or somewhere else. Or, as bredman says, could be a leaky cask.
JohnM
Fully mature Cask
 
Posts: 1634
Joined: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:02 pm

Re: Question on Connemara singles casks?

Postby IainB » Thu Dec 02, 2010 12:53 am

kurtbenoit wrote:CWS are the only one I see stocking the 18 year old, they're the ones saying 70 bottles and also saying it's exclusive to them.


When CWS say exclusive I don't think they count the Kilbeggan distillery shop. Also they might mean exclusive to Ireland.
IainB
Hogshead
 
Posts: 976
Joined: Thu Jul 02, 2009 3:48 pm

Re: Question on Connemara singles casks?

Postby IrishWhiskeyChaser » Thu Dec 02, 2010 10:01 am

IainB wrote:
kurtbenoit wrote:CWS are the only one I see stocking the 18 year old, they're the ones saying 70 bottles and also saying it's exclusive to them.


When CWS say exclusive I don't think they count the Kilbeggan distillery shop. Also they might mean exclusive to Ireland.


I think your thinking on this would be right Iain ...
Sláinte Adrian
IrishWhiskeyChaser
Site Admin
 
Posts: 2910
Joined: Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:37 pm
Location: A Dark Dunnage somewhere in Galway

Re: Question on Connemara singles casks?

Postby Malt-Teaser » Sun Feb 20, 2011 5:49 pm

Rather than start a new thread I was looking for somewhere to post about Connemara single casks, I hope this is the right place.

Anyway, I have now tried three different ones and two were brilliant. Yesterday at the Munich whisky fair I tried a single cask bottling from the Whisky Agency / Whisky fair (Limburg).
Details are; K01/10 1196, 20th March 2001-25th March 2009, bottle No.117, 59.2%

Sadly, I found this a little light, although to be honest I didn't have the opportunity to add water and experiment more with it. I still award it a decent score of 83 points as it wasn't a bad whisky, just not a very very good one or great.

Malty
Malt-Teaser
Rundlet Cask
 
Posts: 104
Joined: Sat Aug 14, 2010 6:07 am

Re: Question on Connemara singles casks?

Postby JohnM » Mon Feb 21, 2011 11:47 am

Was it a bourbon cask, Malt-teaser?
JohnM
Fully mature Cask
 
Posts: 1634
Joined: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:02 pm

Re: Question on Connemara singles casks?

Postby Malt-Teaser » Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:56 am

Hi John,
this is all the info I have:

ConnemaraSC.jpg
ConnemaraSC.jpg (78.75 KiB) Viewed 1411 times


My guess is that it was a bourbon cask, but maybe the good folk here know this cask better than I?
Malt-Teaser
Rundlet Cask
 
Posts: 104
Joined: Sat Aug 14, 2010 6:07 am

Re: Question on Connemara singles casks?

Postby Malt-Teaser » Tue Mar 01, 2011 4:42 pm

Just for the record I've now managed to get my tasting notes for that Connemara Single Cask online:
http://www.whisky-emporium.com/UK/ActualTastingNotes/Cooley.htm#Con-SC-K0110

It's amidst my other Connemara (and indeed all Cooley) notes so page around to see the various expressions and now 3 different single casks that I've written notes for.

Malty
Malt-Teaser
Rundlet Cask
 
Posts: 104
Joined: Sat Aug 14, 2010 6:07 am


Return to Collectors Corner