Following our American Single Malt Whiskey tasting, we are now going to the explore the category of Single Malt Irish Whiskey. This is a very special tasting that Dave Cummins has curated for Southern California Whiskey Club with cask samples and new make, straight off the still, to make this a unique experience. Dingle is one of the first of the new wave of Irish distilleries making their own whiskey, but they don’t make a lot of whiskey on the whole – just two casks a day. Since their founding in 2012, they haven’t sourced their whiskey; it’s theirs and it’s developing nicely — that’s a rarity in Ireland, and it’s to be commended. 

 

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lineup:

1. Single Malt New Make, 65%

2. Single Malt Bourbon cask sample, 46.3%

3. Single Malt Pedro Ximenez cask sample, 46.3%

4. Single Malt core release, 46.3%

5. Single Pot Still Shiraz Finish, 62.5%

6. Single Malt Whiskey Batch No. 3 “The Port Baby”, 46%

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about the distillery:

To achieve the flavours they want to in the whiskey, they use three distinctive, hand-crafted copper pot stills incorporating a boil ball to encourage reflux. The Dingle Whiskey Distillery is an independent family-owned business, thanks, in part, to their Founding Fathers program. They are an artisan distillery making Single Malt Irish Whiskey in a converted sawmill in Milltown on the outskirts of Dingle in a Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking region) in the southwest of Ireland. In 2017, Dingle Distillery became the first independent Irish distillery to release a single pot still whiskey in several decades. [link] 

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note:

Zoom information is on the placemat + SCWC website page

sample size = 1oz

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Big thanks to John Endman for making this happen!