It’s not very often that bottles of Irish whiskey appear for sale from around the turn of the 20th century, around 1900. It’s even less often that they get opened, experienced and tasted…… Be part of our effort to change that.
We will be sampling 3 x 15ml historic whiskey samples.
Whiskey was made differently 120 yrs ago. Modern efficiencies produce a cleaner spirit. This is your opportunity to taste the whiskey of your grandfather’s father, with two of the foremost experts in Ireland of historic Irish whiskey, Fionnán O’Connor and Chris Hennessy.
This whiskey won’t be pre-poured and waiting for you in the glass. This is all about being in the room when the seal is broken for the first time in over a century; removing the cork that will invariably fall apart the first time it is disturbed in over a century and putting your hands on a dusty old bottle that has been resting gently, awaiting it’s eventual release…
To ease us into our two century old bottles, we will first get a taste of a more modern bottle…kinda…. A 43% 1960’s bottle of Paddy Pot Still whiskey Italian import, an absolute classic vintage Irish Pot Still, full of oats to give that oily Pot Still mouthfeel.
Then onto the first Historic Bottle – A Kirker and Greer Shamrock blended Irish whiskey, a US import from the 1920’s. This is truly a historic bottle that is intertwined with The Gladstone Act of 1860, which caused huge confusion in licencing practices and allowed for this purported ‘7yr blend’ to exist……. This will be tasted as well as discussed and explained by Fionnán and Chris.
Our Final bottle to be opened and experienced will be a bottle of Pure Old Dublin Whiskey. This bottle has been dated to the 1890’s, by the blown glass bottle type and the label type. Whilst it is hard to pin down the exact distillery, it is a mixed mashbill / potstill whiskey made in one of the major Silent Dublin distilleries of the 1890’s.
A truly unique opportunity will be experienced by attendees, that if they were to find bottles of this vintage open at a 5-star establishment, would cost many €1000’s a measure.
Don’t miss out!!
