Bottle 14: Glendalough Double Barrel Irish Whiskey
Glendalough Double Barrel Irish Whiskey
Distillery: Undisclosed
Region/Country: Ireland
Age: NAS
ABV: 42%
Cask type(s): ex-bourbon American oak, Spanish Oloroso casks from Montilla
Grain Bill: 100% Malted Barley
Tasting Notes
- Nose: Rich with notes of dark fruit, cherry, raisin, fig, and Christmas pudding.
- Palate: Sweet and smooth with hints of butterscotch, honey, popcorn, dried fruit, maraschino cherries, and brown sugar.
- Finish: Hints of ginger spices, and a touch of almond and earthiness.
Whisky Stuff
No whisky stuff today. Just sip, and rejoice. If you’re interested, read a litle about St. Kevin of Glendalough, founder of the monastic settlement in Glendalough, and an early medival ascetic, whom our whisky company today has adopted as their mascot.
The Third Sunday in Advent - Joyful Expectation
Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts. But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the LORD. Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the LORD as in the days of old and as in former years.
Take off the garment of your sorrow and affliction, O Jerusalem, and put on for ever the beauty of the glory from God. Put on the robe of the righteousness that comes from God; put on your head the diadem of the glory of the Everlasting, for God will show your splendour everywhere under heaven. For God will give you evermore the name “Righteous Peace, Godly Glory”.
Arise, O Jerusalem, stand upon the height; look toward the east and see your children gathered from west and east at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them. For they went out from you on foot, led away by their enemies; but God will bring them back to you, carried in glory as on a royal throne.
For God has ordered that every high mountain and the everlasting hills be made low, and the valleys filled up to make level ground so that Israel may walk safely in the glory of God. The woods and every fragrant tree have shaded Israel at God’s command. For God will lead Israel with joy in the light of his glory, with the mercy and righteousness that come from him.
Repeat the sounding joy.
from Kate Bowler, Advent Day 15
So on this Gaudete Sunday—the pink candle day, the little exhale in the middle of waiting—let’s take joy off the shelf where we keep fancy words and put it in circulation. Not because everything is fine. Because Christ has come, is coming, and will come again—“far as the curse is found.”
Blessed are we whose hearts feel crowded and tired,
who hear an old song and dare to hum along.
Blessed are we who make a little room anyway—
in sinkful kitchens, in traffic, in grief—
and find that Joy has already arrived,
ringing the doorbell with both hands.