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PIQUE-NIQUE SUMMER '22 MICRO CUVÉE

HEADLINE FACTS

TITLEPique-Nique Summer '22
MATURATION1429 DAYS OR 3 YEARS, 10 MONTH 29 DAYS
ASSEMBLAGE DATE7 December 2021
Bottled28 April 2022
ABV50%
For MarketOnline
No. OF BOTTLES650

PIQUE-NIQUE SUMMER ’22

Golden meadow, babbling brook, zephyr breeze, azure sky; a lazy, hazy dejeuner sur l’herbe under dappled relief, a blanket on the grass & time on one’s hands. Pique-Nique is an occasional, lighthearted, seasonal dram created with only such frivolous bucolic pleasures in mind – this is a new expression of Head Distiller Ned’s little summer pudding of Single Farm Origin synthesis.

Note: For 2022, we intended to release only 1,200 bottles – as the labels, which are created in advance, state. However – and we’re absolutely not blaming Head Distiller Ned’s use of a calculator – we only made enough for 650 bottles, or thereabouts…

THE GROWERS

Growing Season Weather

Days Sunny
Days Rain
Average Temp.

A Pique-Nique... On Islay?

Last year, we managed to smuggle the first edition of Pique-Nique to our founder and CEO Mark Reynier, whilst at home on Islay.

Growers

Grower
Farm
County
Type
Evan McDonnell
Mortarstown
Carlow
Conventional
Peter Cummins
Ballykelly
Wexford
Conventional
Sean & Pierce Cousins
Kilmore Quay
Wexford
Conventional
Francis Kehoe
Lacken
Wexford
Conventional
Leonard & Barry Ashmore
Blackcastle
Kildare
Conventional
Kenneth Ashmore
Knockroe
Kildare
Conventional
Henry Yeats
Coolagh House
Kildare
Conventional
Thomas Kehoe
Ballywilliam
Wexford
Conventional

YEAST & WATER

FERMENTATION TIME147
Production waterVolcanic Aquifer

BARLEY VARIETIES

Head Distiller's Observations

Appearance: Rose gold with tear drop oils.

Nose: Perfumed elegance, lavender, barley dust, white chocolate, red apple peel, mandarin orange, fresh cut grass, fruity bubble gum.

Taste: Dry pear, light spice, ripe banana, biscoff, mouth puckering, dark chocolate, cherry cola, sultanas, barley sugar, bell pepper, fruit cake.

Finish: Dry, lingering light spice, chewable, light clove.

cask no.
cask type
cask fill
cooperage
fill date
farm
Archive Storage
Pique-Nique 2021 Assemblage
450
Various - 7 cask blend
26 July 2021
Various
4718
Premium French
224.17
Taransaud
15 May 2017
Ballywilliam
5855
Vin Doux Naturel
220.43
Laurent Vives
28 October 2016
Coolagh Farm

Composition

PREMIUM FRENCH OAK
60%
VIN DOUX NATUREL
40%

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