Teeling Whiskey Company has signed a deal with Bacardi that will expand its U.S. distribution while also selling a minority stake in the company to the Bermuda-based private drinks company. Although Teeling had been imported into the U.S. since 2014, the new deal should greatly increase the company’s market access. The U.S. is the world’s single most lucrative whiskey market, ...

One of Ireland’s leading whiskey companies,Walsh Whiskey Distillery, has appointed Lisa Ryan to the position of Distillery Manager. The company produces The Irishman and Writers’ Tears premium Irish whiskeys, which are sold in over 40 countries worldwide. Ms. Ryan has responsibility for the production of all three styles of Irish whiskey (pot still, malt and grain) at Walsh Whiskey Distillery ...

By Richard Thomas Good Dads deserve good whiskey. It sounds like a simple proposition, but the socks and ties that so many Dads get stuck with every year say otherwise. Here are a dozen whiskeys, covering a range of gift budget price points and the gambit of bourbon, rye, Irish whiskey and Scotch whisky. Budget Bin Winners While Papa might ...

By Richard Thomas For years, it was my standing lament in introducing a new installment in our periodic series on bad whiskey writing that depressingly little time had passed since I had written the previous one. For once, I can report that it has been a surprisingly and refreshingly long time between this, the tenth piece on the clueless and ...

Diageo’s plans to build a €25m distillery for its new Roe & Co. Irish Whiskey brand have been approved by Irish authorities. The distillery will be built at the St. James Gate in Dublin, Diageo’s base in Ireland and the home of Guinness’s Open Gate Brewery. The plans approval also include the construction of a visitors center at the former ...