The Wild Geese Rare is distilled by Cooley Distillery for the Avalon Group. Double distilled, unpeated single malt and grain whiskey are aged in bourbon casks and then blended together. It received a great review from Jim Murray's 2009 Whiskey Bible and scored 89.5 points- 'some toffee, yes, but the excellence of the vanilla is there to behold; just a light layering of barley but the gentle citrus caresses with the more exquisite touch...superb arrival on the palate...just love this. The Cooley grain is working sublimely and dovetails with the malt in the same effortless way wild geese fly in perfect formation. A treat!'