By Emma Briones Rating: A+ What is it that makes a whiskey special? Is it the age? Its provenance? For Master Blender Billy Leighton it was a particular cask. A cask so rare and unique that it became a limited edition on its own: Redbreast Dream Cask 32 Year Old. In 1985, the first parcel of what became Redbreast 21 ...

Walsh Whiskey Distillery has released the second expression in The Irishman Founder’s Reserve Cask Series, this time a vatting of Single Pot Still and Single Malt whiskeys, finished for 6 months in Chairman’s Reserve Rum casks. In recent years, as part of his research into new cask finishes for his portfolio of whiskeys, Walsh Whiskey founder, Bernard Walsh, has sourced ...

Irish Distillers, makers of the world’s most well-known and successful Irish whiskeys, has added two new and experimental, limited edition Irish whiskeys to its Method And Madness range; Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey Finished in Virgin Hungarian Oak and a 28-year-old Ruby Port Pipe Single Cask Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey. First launched in 2017, Method And Madness aims to ...

By Emma Briones Rating: B In its Wine Geese series, Green Spot has been exploring the characteristics that using special wine casks can bring to its single pot still whiskey. The second expression in this range is Green Spot Chateau Montelena. This whisky brings together the stories of two different Irish entrepreneurs. On one side are the Mitchel brothers, who ...

Irish Distillers has confirmed that the limited edition, 32 Year Old Single Pot Still Irish whiskey, Redbreast Dream Cask, has sold out. Launched exclusively through The Redbreast Birdhouse, at 4.00pm on 19th May – World Whisky Day – all 816 bottles of Redbreast Dream Cask were sold by 10.30pm, at a rate of more than two bottles per minute.