Glendalough Pot Still Irish Whiskey

Glendalough (pronounced ‘Glen da-Loch’) distillery took shape in 2013. One of the earliest players in Ireland’s craft distilling movement, they initially focused on poitín and gin before starting to distill their own whiskey in 2015. By then they’d already started releasing whiskeys sourced elsewhere, but which they’d been able to put their own spin on through maturation and blending.

That’s what we have here with pot still Irish whiskey a quintessentially Irish style (in this case made with a 1:2 ratio of malted and unmalted Irish barley to Glendalough’s specifications), initially matured in bourbon casks before being finished in fresh Irish oak casks from trees in the Wicklow mountains selected under a Continuous Cover Forest Management System. One of the first (for a century or so), and still the most accessible Irish oak matured release.