Bushmills 10 Year Old Single Malt Sherry Cask Reserve
Bushmills · Old Bushmills Distillery
A graceful, daybreak-soft single malt that rewards patient sipping. Not flashy, but deeply composed — the kind of whiskey that reveals itself slowly as the light changes.
Nose
Soft honeyed malt unfurls first, followed by toasted almond, dried apricot, and a whisper of milk chocolate. Time in the glass coaxes out raisin bread and a faint orange-peel brightness.
Palate
Silky and rounded, with stewed orchard fruit, vanilla custard, and warm sherry-soaked sultanas. A gentle nuttiness — hazelnut and marzipan — frames a backbone of clean cereal malt.
Finish
Medium length, drying gently with cocoa dust, baked apple, and a final flicker of clove and dry oak.
- Distillation
- Triple-distilled in copper pot stills
- Maturation
- Matured in a combination of former bourbon barrels and oloroso sherry butts for a minimum of 10 years
- Single Pot Still
- No
- Chill-Filtered
- Yes
Cocktail Suggestion
First Light on the Causeway — 2 oz Bushmills 10 Single Malt, 0.5 oz Pedro Ximénez sherry, 0.25 oz honey syrup, 2 dashes orange bitters. Stir with ice for 30 seconds, strain into a chilled coupe, express an orange peel over the surface and drop it in.
Food Pairing
Warm brioche with honeycomb and a wedge of aged Coolea cheese; or roasted figs wrapped in prosciutto.
Distilled on the windswept Antrim coast at a site licensed in 1608, where triple-distilled malt has been quietly shaped by Atlantic air and oloroso casks for over four centuries.
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