Knappogue Castle 1996 Ex Libris 25 Year Old 'Remarkable Rocket'

Knappogie Castle is a brand of single malt Irish whiskey distilled at Cooley, based on a series of single cask releases from a batch of Tullamore stock discovered in the eponymous house.

Cooley distillery was opened in 1987 after it was converted from a potato alcohol plant by John Teeling. It now operates two pot and three column stills, generally double distilling as opposed the more familiar triple distillation that most Irish producers favour. It was bought by Beam Inc. in 2011, with its former owners now operating the Teeling distillery in Dublin. Cooley's core range includes the Kilbeggan blends and a peated and unpeated single malt, called Connemara and Tyrconnell, respectively. In addition to this, they have a massive contract distilling operation, providing whisky to a number of independent labels like this.

From the Ex Libris series, this is brand of Irish single casks bottled for La Maison du Whisky, each taking their name from an Oscar Wilde short story.

This whisky was distilled in 1996 and aged in single bourbon cask #5629 before being bottled at cask strength after 25 years of maturation.

One of 200 bottles.