Tullamore Dew 12 Year Old Special Reserve is a complex whiskey, well-flavoured but mellow, with clear flavours of Irish pot still and unpeated malt whiskey emerging. Followed by undertones of toasted wood from the lightly charred old bourbon casks giving way to the sweet nuttiness derived from the old Oloroso Spanish sherry butts. The overall impression is of a well flavoured Irish whiskey mellowed by age with just a touch of spicy tones on the palate followed by a finish which is pleasantly dry.