Waterford Single Malt Whisky Organic Gaia 1.1

Is in The Arcadian Series. Unlike my former reviews, Organic Gaia 1.1 is not a Single Farm Origin single malt. This time, Waterford put their hands on every organic barley they could find and used for this whisky. John Mallick, Paddy Tobin, Alan Jackson, Pat and Denis Booth, Jason Stanley and Trevor Harris took the challenge of growing organic barley for malting and I am trying to understand their marvelous job with my small brain through my nose.

Waterford lays down 400 to 600 barrels of organic spirit in a year, they also plan to do a Single Farm Origin version of the organic whisky.

Waterford Organic Gaia 1.1 is Ireland’s first whisky distilled f rom certified organic Irish barley. Hence the name Gaia, the neopagan goddess of yore, a personification of Mother Earth herself, is a fitting custodian.

For this whisky, Ouverture variety was used with Mauri’s Distiller’s Yeast through a fermentation period of 136 hours. The whisky is matured in the following barrels for a total of 3 years 9 months and 20 days.

Limited Edition.