Egan’s Irish Whiskey Centenary (image via Egan’s Irish Whiskey)[/caption]
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READ THE STORYPlans call for Centenary to price around $100, with a limited release of just 5,995 bottles worldwide being made available. Official tasting notes indicate “floral notes with accents of honey and apricot on the nose. A combination of light wafers, almond, ginger, and zesty fruits linger on the palate. The finish is long and gentle with hints of ginger giving way to lemon zest and licorice.”
It should be noted as well each bottle of Egan’s Centenary comes with an Irish tweed coaster, produced in partnership with Magee of Donegal. This is done as a nod to the “Tullamore Tweed” incident that Henry Egan was involved in in 1887. He was a “political Irishman of conviction,” serving as secretary of the Tullamore Land League, and in that year “Land League leaders William O’Brien, M.P. and John Mandeville were imprisoned at Tullamore Gaol (jail). The men refused to wear official prison garments, protesting their non-criminal status and declaring themselves as political prisoners. Henry managed to smuggle in a suit of Irish Blarney Tweed, a soft hat, and an emerald green tie for O’Brien to wear in defiance of the authorities.”
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