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On the palate, the whiskey is sweet, smooth with a viscous mouth coating quality and a pronounced palate weight. There is apple, along with tropical notes of green plantain and a touch of mango and some candied citrus zest. On the nose the fruit notes are pronounced. The expression is a single pot still whiskey, matured in a combination of 2nd and 3rd fill ex-bourbon barrels as well as a small component of Oloroso Sherry butts. The migration of the swallows in the autumn traditionally marked the beginning of the distillation season. Another explanation is that Powers whiskey bottles have historically been embossed with three swallows.

The flask held enough whiskey to give each of the three one swallow. During the cold winter months the coachmen were given a small flask from which they would take a sip of the whiskey to stay warm. Supposedly, the name “Three Swallow” refers to the fact that the distillery’s coaches had three coachman, two up front and one in the rear. There are several different explanations for the origin of the brand. Three Swallow is a classic expression of traditional, 19th century style, pot still whiskey. Powers, Three Swallow, 43.2% ABV, 750 ml ARP $44 Powers, Three Swallow, Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey Photo, courtesy IDL ARP is the average retail price in the US. These whiskeys are widely distributed in the US and are readily found in larger liquor stores.Īll three of the Powers whiskies are sweet and noticeably fruit forward with pronounced notes of stone fruits, peach and apricot, and tropical fruits, melon, mango and sometimes pineapple, and exceptionally smooth. The Powers Gold Label is a blend of 70% 5-7 year old pot still whiskey matured in ex-bourbon barrels and 30% grain whiskey.īelow are tasting notes for the Powers core range.

All pot still whiskies are triple distilled. A malt whiskey by comparison, requires a mash bill that is 100% malted barley. Power’s has not disclosed the details of the mash bill for its John’s Lane or Three Swallows whiskeys except that it is a mix of malted and unmalted barley and another grain.Ī blended whiskey, like Powers Gold Label is a blend of pot still whiskey and grain whiskey, the latter produced in a continuous (column) still. 95% of the mash bill must consist of barley, malted and unmalted, and 5% can consist of other grains. In 2015, the distillery released Three Swallow.Ī single pot still whiskey is made at a single distillery from a mash bill that must have a minimum 30% malted barley and a minimum of 30% unmalted barley. In 2011, however, Powers, released John’s Lane, a single pot still whiskey similar to the whiskey produced in the John’s Lane distillery before its closure in 1976. (Photo by David Lefranc/Kipa/Sygma via Getty Images) Sygma via Getty Images Power's Whiskey (established 1791) mirror at the Irish Whiskey Corner in Dublin. That is a pity, because it really is an outstanding whiskey. Powers by comparison was somewhat ignored. It’s the best selling Irish whisky in the US with over 75% market share in 2019. Today, Jameson represents about two-thirds of the Irish whiskey industry’s global sales. Over the next 3 decades, armed with Pernod’s marketing and distribution muscle, IDL transformed Powers’ stable mate, Jameson, into the leading Irish whiskey brand. In the meantime, in 1967, Powers, following the trend of its Irish whiskey cousins, was reformulated from a single pot still whiskey to a blend.įrench beverage conglomerate Pernod-Richard acquired IDL in 1989. From 1976 on, Powers whiskey has been produced at the new Midleton distillery. Starting in 1975, all distilling operations were consolidated at a new distillery in Midleton, just outside Cork. In 1966, John Power & Son combined with John Jameson & Son and the Cork Distilleries Company to form Irish Distillers Ltd (IDL). World War I, Irish independence and the resulting Anglo-Irish trade war, Prohibition in the United States, and badly conceived Irish government policies, among others, all combined to precipitate a disastrous downtrend in global Irish whiskey sales. The late 19th century was the peak for Power as well as the rest of the Irish whiskey industry. At the time most whiskey distillers, both in Ireland and Scotland, sold their whiskey by the barrel to retailers and independent bottlers. Powers Gold Label was among the best selling whiskeys in the world. In 1886, Power became the first distiller to bottle their own whiskey. John Power & Son was the smallest of the Dublin distillers, but its capacity was 5 times that of the Glenlivet distillery, then the largest whiskey distillery in Scotland.