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Review: The Liberties Copper Alley
The Dublin Liberties Copper Alley is a 10 year old Irish single malt from a distillery only a couple of years old, which raises an obvious question.
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Review: Jameson Triple Triple
In the summer, Irish Distillers (the producers of Jameson) announced a brand new, airport exclusive, Jameson. The press release states “we’ve known that good things come in threes ever since John Jameson set up his distillery on Bow Street in…
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Review: Kaiyō Whisky
Kaiyō is a Japanese malt made from tea-spooned barrels aged in its own cellars, so who actually distilled it?
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Review: Midleton- Barry Crockett Legacy (New)
Midleton’s tip of the hat to Barry Crockett is a single pot still said to be drawn from casks up to 25 years old, at €225 to €250 a bottle.
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Review: Teachers Highland Cream
Teachers Highland Cream is bottled from Ardmore whisky and costs about €25, and it is worth a punt if you like peat and malt.
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Decoding Whiskey Auctions: From Headline Prices to True Valuations
Record prices make the headlines, but the average hammer price is what tells you what a bottle is actually worth.
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Bidding Against the Clock
Why do bidders still wait for the last second when proxy bidding does the job for them? It comes down to ego, control and a few well-known cognitive traps.
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Whiskey Exploration: The Maturation Process
How Whiskey is matured, basically. Here are the legal restraints over maturation for bourbon, Irish and Scotch, and then the influences a cask can have on a whiskey through maturation and ‘finishing’. Bourbon: – Aged in new charred oak containers…
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Whiskey Exploration: How Irish Whiskey Is Made
How Irish Whiskey is made, basically. Irish whiskey can be dated back as far as 1405, about 90 years before the first recorded Scotch (1494). It used to be a highly coveted commodity, with over 200 licensed distilleries back in…
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