Dunville's 10 Year Old PX Cask Single Malt Irish Whiskey
Dunville's · Echlinville Distillery (bottler; sourced malt matured and finished at Echlinville, County Down)
A masterclass in restraint: the PX cask is expressive but never smothering, and the malt's quiet strength gives the whiskey a compressed, brooding energy — tension held within, indeed.
Nose
Raisin-soaked sponge cake, toasted almond, milk chocolate, and a whisper of orange peel, with a background of polished oak and dark honey.
Palate
Rich and layered — fig jam, dark muscovado, roasted hazelnut, and clove-dusted stewed plum. The malt holds its shape beneath the sherry, offering a taut cereal backbone that keeps the sweetness in check.
Finish
Long, gently drying, with lingering cocoa, walnut skin, and a resinous echo of oak spice.
- Distillation
- Triple-distilled in traditional copper pot stills
- Maturation
- Matured in ex-bourbon casks and finished in first-fill Pedro Ximénez sherry butts
- Single Pot Still
- No
- Chill-Filtered
- Non-chill filtered
Cocktail Suggestion
The Silent Reservoir — 2 oz Dunville's 10 PX, 0.25 oz Pedro Ximénez sherry, 2 dashes Angostura bitters, 1 dash orange bitters. Stir with ice for 30 seconds; strain into a chilled coupe. Express an orange peel over the surface and discard.
Food Pairing
Aged Coolea cheese with fig chutney and toasted walnut bread, or a slice of dark chocolate torte with sea salt.
Once a titan of Belfast's Royal Irish Distilleries silenced in 1936, Dunville's was resurrected in 2012 by the Echlinville Distillery on the Ards Peninsula, where the name now carries a new generation of carefully sherry-matured single malts.
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