S4 E21 Jameson Triple Triple Irish Whiskey with Macanudo Orange Label

Cigar Reviewed: Macanudo Inspirado Orange

Smoked at: No Shoes Bar & Grill

Hey Stonerz! Welcome to another episode of Sticks-Stonez, I am your host Brent Elrod coming to you from the cozy confines of the patio at the No Shoes Bar and Grill here deep in the heart of the Republic of Texas. I have a great show lined up for today I am pairing a Macanudo Orange Label with Jameson Triple Triple whiskey. I think it is going to be a very interesting matchup so right after this we will pop the cork, cut the stick, and get to toasting.

Jameson Triple Triple

Jameson Triple Triple is a special edition Irish whiskey that is triple distilled and aged in a combination of bourbon, sherry, and Malaga wine casks, resulting in a smooth and complex flavor profile. Tasting notes include bright citrus, ripe fruits, creamy vanilla, and a long, smooth finish, making it versatile for sipping neat, on the rocks, or in cocktails.

NAS but aged in Ex-Bourbon, Sherry & Malaga Casks

Mash Bill: some disagreement from 50/50 barley/malted barley to 80/20 corn/malted barley.

40% ABV 80 Proof

Nose: Fruit notes of foam strawberries, pear syrup and crushed red berries are sweetened further with a layer of cake icing, creamy vanilla. Running throughout grainy corn, praline and delicate licks of cinnamon spicing.

Taste: A bit thin like you would expect a 80 proof spirit to be there is a softness and silkiness to it. Again leads with lots of fruit citrus fruit, strawberries and cranberries followed by toffee and toasted oak in the mid palate, and round out with pepper and cinnamon, and roasted grain.

Finish: Short to medium in length with fading red berry fruits, and tea-like astringency from the oak. Foam sweets with park benches.

Macanudo Inspirado Orange Label

Size: Gigante 6x60

Filler: Olar and Piloto Cubano tobaccos from the Dominican Republic, Honduran Jamastran and Nicaraguan Ometepe leaves

Binder: Honduran Jamastran

Wrapper: Olancho San Agustin from Honduras

Visual: beautiful tan in color, tight nearly invisible, minimal veining, and a triple cap.

Nose: stables or barnyard, brown sugar, melon

CUT

Cold Draw: Hay, cinnamon, and cedar

Light: earth, leather, spice, floral and fruit notes

Halfway: Hey Stonerz, here at the half the stick has given us creamy sweetness, nuts, coffee, and cedar.

Jameson Triple Triple rather surprised me with its genuinely different take on an industry stalwart bottling. The Malaga wine cask has added some real berry sweetness to the underlying pot still and grain whiskey composition resulting in an expression which feels transformed enough to merit its own bottling. This said, whilst the flavour profile has been changed up, the quality level is, as you might expect, very similar to the standard Jameson’s expression. Sure it’s ‘smooth’ (one could equally say underpowered), but it’s also uneven and at times uneasily youthful (particularly the grain component).