Content with the tag: Ireland

Bushmills 10 Year old

The bench­mark Irish sin­gle malt, this has a far greater depth of flavour than stan­dard Irish blends. Win­ner of the ‘Best Irish Sin­gle Malt Whiskey in the World’ at last year’s World Whiskies Awards.

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Bushmills Black Bush

A rich, dark, blend from the world’s old­est licensed dis­tillery, Black Bush is com­prised almost entirely of Sin­gle Malt whiskey, dis­tilled three times in Cop­per pot­stills and aged in Oloroso sherry casks for around 8–10 years before mar­riage with the grain.…

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Bushmills Distillery

The Old Bush­mills Dis­tillery was founded in 1608 and is now owned by the major drinks com­pany Dia­geo. Bush­mills whiskey is pro­duced, matured, and bot­tled on-site at the Bush­mills Dis­tillery in Bush­mills, County Antrim, North­ern Ire­land. The dis­tillery is a…

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Connemara 1992, Single Cask

A rare sin­gle cask bot­tling from Con­nemara Dis­tillery. Bot­tled from cask K92/313804 which was filled on 11^th August 1992 and bot­tled on 20^th June 2008, this should be phenomenal.

Named after one of the most famous regions in Ire­land, Connemara…

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Cooley Distillery

Coo­ley Dis­tillery is the only inde­pen­dent, Irish-owned whiskey dis­tillery in Ire­land, con­verted in 1987 from an older indus­trial potato ethanol plant by John Teel­ing. The Dis­tillery is located on the Coo­ley Penin­sula in County Louth on Ireland’s eastern coast.

The dis­tillery…

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Green Spot

A fab­u­lous pure pot­still whiskey, exalted by con­nois­seurs as one of the finest Irish whiskeys avail­able. Vibrant and very char­ac­ter­ful, Green Spot must be tried by seri­ous fans of Irish Whiskey.

Green Spot is a pure pot still Irish whiskey,…

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Greenore 8 Year old

A gold medal-winner at the Inter­na­tional Wine & Spir­its Com­pe­ti­tion, this unique con­coc­tion is a 100% Sin­gle Grain Irish whiskey, with no malt con­tent at all.

Sweet, appetis­ing and organic nose. Sweet with vanilla, dried banana chips, and coconut

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Jameson 12 Year old / Special Reserve

For­merly known as ‘1780’ in ref­er­ence to the year the orig­i­nal Jame­son dis­tillery in Bow Street, Dublin, was founded, this has recently been relaunched as ‘Spe­cial Reserve’. A smooth, spicy, sweet potstill-based blend.

Jame­son 12 Year Old Spe­cial Reserve,

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Japanese whisky tasting in Dublin

The Irish Whiskey Soci­ety is hold­ing a Japan­ese whisky tast­ing at Brooks Hotel, Drury Street, Dublin from 7.30pm on Thurs­day, May 27.

Com­mit­tee mem­ber, Zoltan Vari, a com­mit­tee mem­ber of the soci­ety, vis­ited three Japan­ese dis­til­leries (Nikka, Yamazaki and Hakushu) on the Japan leg of a world trip in 2009. He will share some of his pho­tos and expe­ri­ences from the trip and also at least two Japan­ese whiskies that are hard to find in Ire­land: Nikka All Malt (a very unusual blend of pot still malt and Cof­fey still malt) and Nikka Tsuru 17yo.

Entry is €15 for IWS mem­bers. You can pur­chase mem­ber­ship along with your ticket. Entry is €22.50 for non-members. Book here.

You scratch my back… 2007 St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Harajuku

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Knappogue Castle 1995

The lat­est vin­tage in this award-winning series of Irish sin­gle malts was dis­tilled by Bush­mils in 1995 and bot­tled in 2007, the old­est release to date. The Whiskey has a pale golden color, a lin­ger­ing silk­i­ness on the palate.

Irish…

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