Dunville's PX 12 Year Old Single Malt Irish Whiskey
Dunville's · Echlinville Distillery
A masterclass in sherry-cask maturation from a revived heritage name — profound, generous, and unhurried, rewarding slow contemplation more than casual sipping.
Nose
Dense fig jam and raisin lead, layered with dark toffee, roasted almond, and a whisper of clove-studded orange peel; beneath the sherry weight lies a bright malt sweetness and a subtle waft of polished oak.
Palate
Full-bodied and viscous, opening with sticky date, black cherry, and molasses before a wave of cocoa nib, hazelnut praline, and warming baking spice takes hold. Underneath, the malt reveals itself — cereal-sweet, faintly grassy — a light concealed by the sherry's shadow.
Finish
Long and warming, with lingering raisin, dark chocolate, tobacco leaf, and a gentle drying oak tannin that fades into candied orange.
- Distillation
- Triple-distilled in copper pot stills
- Maturation
- Matured in ex-bourbon barrels for the majority of its 12 years, then finished in first-fill Pedro Ximénez sherry casks from Andalusia
- Single Pot Still
- No
- Chill-Filtered
- Non-chill filtered; natural color
Cocktail Suggestion
The Shrouded Lamp — 2 oz Dunville's PX 12, 0.25 oz PX sherry, 2 dashes orange bitters, 1 dash chocolate bitters. Stir with ice for 25 seconds; strain into a chilled coupe. Express an orange peel over the surface and drop it in. Serve without garnish for a drink that darkens the more you look at it.
Food Pairing
Aged Coolea cheese with fig paste, or a slice of sticky toffee pudding with lightly salted crème fraîche.
Once one of Belfast's great whiskey names before falling silent in 1936, Dunville's was resurrected by the Echlinville Distillery on the Ards Peninsula — the first new distillery licensed in Northern Ireland in over 125 years.
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