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Back in 2022, Sazarac, the company behind iconic brands including Buffalo Trace and Last Drop Distillers made headlines when it purchased Lough Gill, an Irish Whiskey distillery near Sligo.
With a 50-year age statement and $60,000 price tag, it’s the oldest single pot still Irish whiskey ever released. And after spending five decades aging in wood, it’s possibly the oldest ...
The 10 April launch event for Midleton Very Rare Silent Distillery Collection Chapter Six, a 50-year-old, single-pot-still Irish whiskey, oozed opulence in a way that befits a product that’s yours for ...
Distil grain anywhere on the island of Ireland and you can call it Irish whiskey. But under Donald Trump’s tariffs, the spirits made north of the border might get an advantage. The US president ...
In a spirits landscape where American bourbon has hit production surpluses, Scotch is facing rising prices, and trade wars are causing massive uncertainty, Irish whiskey is one of the few ...
The Trump administration’s introduction of separate import tariffs for the UK and EU has exposed the complexity around the island’s Irish whiskey industry post-Brexit. The United States ...
Irish whiskey exports to the US, which were valued at €900 million last year, are also in the firing line. Midleton, Co Cork-based Irish Distillers, which produces Jameson and Powers and is the ...
For Tony Healy, an Irish whiskey producer in Dundalk, near the UK border with Northern Ireland, US tariffs of 20 percent on EU alcoholic drinks were a huge and unexpected "curve ball". Producers ...
By law, Irish single pot still whiskey must be made with at least 30 percent malted and 30 percent unmalted barley, along with other optional grains. Boann, however, has been lobbying the European ...