Key Details

• Whiskey Name: Dingle Single Malt Batch 5
• Distillery: Dingle Distillery
• ABV: 46.5% (cask strength edition: 59.3%)
• Age: NAS
• Type: Irish Single Malt
• Casks: Ex-bourbon, Pedro Ximenez and Madeira
• Price: €70 for the standard bottling on Irish Malts (at time of writing)
• Release Date: 11/03/2020

Dingle’s fifth single malt batch is out, along with a cask strength edition limited to 500 bottles. The press release is below, as sent.

PRESS RELEASE

The Dingle Distillery, which has been producing outstanding Irish whiskey on the edge of Europe since 2012, is set to launch its fifth batch single malt, including a highly collectable cask strength edition that is strictly limited to just 500 bottles.

Dingle was the first of the new generation of Irish whiskey distilleries when it was opened in 2012 by its founder, the late Oliver Hughes. It remains a family-owned enterprise, and every process, from grist to matured whiskey, takes place within Dingle.

For the Dingle Distillery, which produces a mere 4 casks of hand-crafted whiskey a day, the Batch 5 will make history as the biggest release to date, a total of 36,500 bottles. Five hundred of those will be bottled at cask strength (59.3% abv) as a tribute to the 500 Founding Fathers (and mothers), the people who backed the distillery at its foundation by each investing in a cask of the first spirit to come from Dingle’s stills.

The Batch 5 launch represents a considerable increase in volume, meaning that on this occasion 9,000 bottles can go to the United States, the remaining 27,500 being destined for Ireland, the rest of Europe, Asia and Australasia.

For Master Distiller Graham Coull, who joined Dingle in October 2019, this is his second batch release. He believes that the use of Madeira casks in this whiskey adds a subtle complexity.

“The Madeira influence adds a great depth of flavour and a kind of backbone to this remarkable whiskey while not masking the subtle spice from the Bourbon casks or sweet tone from the Pedro Ximenez ones”, he says.

Dingle Distillery press release, March 2020

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