I rocked up to azzuri and in here now awaiting my food.
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Mairead Ronan off RTE just walked passed the window.
You know Ray Darcy has a house there as well 
The upstairs window?
We were on the downstairs outdoor area. The food was outstanding in there. Going back to limerick now after a very nice day in the Deise county.
Teelings are offering 300 bottles of 18 year single malt at €125 a pop.
It’s like a runner-up prize if you didn’t catch the Waterford runner.
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Where did you see those being sold @anon67715551? Consolation prize alright for the coveted Pilgrimage from Waterford.
I was looking up the Clonakilty stuff last night @Malarkey and saw this 15yr old bottle for sell at €115. They’re making out there’s only 183 bottles but my question is if that is true then how come it hasn’t sold out in jig time if so rare (by their family and friends if no one else) and why release so few anyway?
Probably not even single farm origin. They should stick to the black pudding and leave the whiskey to the experts
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It flashed across my bookface page at some stage. I had no interest but read it all the same. I’d confident I relayed the offer accurately.
I’m a lovely fella. As a reward I decided to buy myself a bottle of ardbeg 10yo. A magnificent whisky with a pedigree that those lads in Waterford can only dream of. It was very reasonably priced at 47.99, however laphroaig select and woodford reserve were both on offer with a tenner or so off the rrp. I bought the pair for 45 british pounds, a bit of a bargain all things considered.
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I’m not a huge whiskey fan, it tastes too strong, but Laphroaig is one of my favourites
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I had some of that Woodford reserve with the old lad last week. Very enjoyable. Must get a bottle of decent bourbon to mix things up. When I’m drinking at home. On my own.
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An honest question deserves an honest attempt at an answer…
1 There are 183 bottles because this offering is a single cask one. The cask in question yielded that amount of bottles. All single cask offerings, by definition, involve a limited out turn of bottles.
2 Cannot see this offering’s bottling strength on the image you posted. Nor does a quick google make me any wiser. But the obvious point applies: a cask bottled at 46% will yield fewer bottles than a cask bottled at 40%.
3 183 bottles would be on the lower end for a 15yo cask. So I am guessing this bottling might be cask strength or 50%. Single cask bottlings of Powers or of Redbreast, around this age, tend to be 220 to 230 bottles.
4 Clonakilty are nowhere near having 15yo distillate. Their most mature distillate would be around 5yo at most. This single cask offering is therefore outside distillate – Bushmills, at a strong guess. The attraction of such a ‘Clonakilty’ bottling, in my eyes and in the eyes of many others, is seriously lessened by the fact that it can offer no guidance on ‘Clonakilty-ness’. This point is the beauty of Waterford waiting to bottle their distillate and only their distillate.
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And, of course, Bushmills 16yo can be bought widely for around £80.
Great answer thanks. The strength on that bottle is 43.6% FYI. Have you tasted any of their own creations and would you think they will survive into the future? It must be a tough old gig to start up and then survive and prosper given the amount of new Irish distilleries that have joined the market or are doing so in the near future. Out of interest are there are new start ups you’d expect to do better than the others (besides the obvious answer of Waterford distillery)?
What’s happened to the gin market? Is whiskey taking it over or is it new ground?
I understood conventional wisdom was gin was the cash flow to fund the whiskey cc @drumshanbo
Without offending my woke forumites few enough women would be whiskey drinkers.
The prices charged for gin and tonics in Dublin bars (when we had such a thing) was fucking scandalous - wonder will people continue to pay that now they see what a bottle costs.
Is it single farm origin?