The Competition

Jameson Gold

Jameson Gold is as fine a drink as you can buy and enjoy. We habitually reserve our most exalted prose for fine wines, but nothing less than superlatives will do for a drink which is amongst the very best things blender Barry Walsh and distiller Barry Crockett of Irish Distillers produce.

Jameson Gold was originally designed for the Far Eastern duty free market, and bottlings have always been very small in volume. What sets JG apart is the use of virgin American oak barrels, i.e. barrels which have been charred in the US style, but which have never seen bourbon. Blended with these are whiskeys (all between 10 and 13 years old) which have aged in oloroso sherry casks. The result is a sensation, a drink so fine, so sensual, so magical that words - appropriately - fail you when you first taste it. This is the true water of life.

And, the good news, is that we have 5 bottles of Jameson Gold to give away, a magical drop just in time for Easter, courtesy of Irish Distillers.

All you have to do is answer this simple question to get your name into the hat:

What was the old Irish term for the "water of life", a phrase later Anglicised to whiskey?

Please submit your answer by filling out this form.

Winner!

Cardinal John Hume (?!), The Pope, Aidan Byrne,(we know he's good, but - a cleric!), Gerard Manley Hopkins, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Cardinal Desmond Connell, Archbishop Narcissus Marsh. These were some of the answers that we received to last month's competition. The answer we were looking for however was Cardinal John Henry Newman - though technically all of you who gave the name Gerard Manley Hopkins were right too, because he was a Jesuit with associations with Newman House.

Caroline Flynn from Monkstown gave the answer Cardinal John Henry Newman, told us he was a former rector, and also gave the answer Gerard Manley Hopkins, who she pointed out was a professor, so Caroline must win the prize of lunch for two in The Commons Restaurant. A coupon is on its way to you Caroline.

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