{"id":7954,"date":"2017-05-31T09:31:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T08:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/?p=7954"},"modified":"2017-05-31T09:31:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T08:31:07","slug":"great-value-drams-knappogue-castle-12-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/great-value-drams-knappogue-castle-12-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Value Drams: Knappogue Castle 12 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"
I recently had the great pleasure to receive the whole Knappogue Castle Whiskey<\/a> range to sample, so without further ado, let’s start this “Knappogue” review series with the youngest of those Irish babies, a 12-year-old expression bottled at 40%.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In 1966, Mark Edwin Andrews purchased Knappogue Castle<\/a>, a 15th century castle in Ireland, which was then in ruins. He and his wife, a prominent architect, then embarked on an ambitious program of restoration, in an effort to return the structure to its original state of glory and grandeur. It was around this time that Andrews began buying casks of fine pot still whiskey from top distilleries in the country. The casks were further aged and bottled under what is now the Knappogue Castle<\/a> label. His last bottling, a 1951 vintage aged 36 years, is revered by connoisseurs as the oldest and rarest commercially available Irish whiskey on the market. Many years later, his son, Mark Andrews III, would bring Knappogue 1951 and his father’s legacy to the United States and other international markets.<\/p>\n