{"id":83,"date":"2020-02-07T19:12:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T19:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewhiskeycompanion.com\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2026-10-26T20:18:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T20:18:59","slug":"whiskey-news-lambay-announce-island-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewhiskeycompanion.com\/blog\/index.php\/whiskey-news-lambay-announce-island-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiskey News: Lambay announce island tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\"><\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">min read<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: center;padding:10px\" src=\"https:\/\/thewhiskeycompanion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/lambaybarrels.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ever wanted to visit Lambay island? Now&#8217;s your chance. Lambay Whiskey have just announced private island tours for groups of up to 12, from \u20ac2,700 (ex VAT), which works out at \u20ac225 a head for a full group.<\/p>\n<p>Some of you might know Lambay as the island barely 3 miles off the east coast of Ireland. It&#8217;s home to puffins, seabirds and even a troupe of wallabies! W.B. Yeats visited in the 1880s and compared it to landing on a remote South Seas island.<\/p>\n<p>Cecil and Maude Baring acquired Lambay in 1904. The castle was in ruins, so they hired the renowned Anglo-Irish architect Edwin Lutyens to bring it back to life. It&#8217;s now protected and enhanced by the surrounding sycamore woods and terraced gardens designed by Gertrude Jekyll.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: center;padding:10px\" src=\"https:\/\/thewhiskeycompanion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/lambaydistillery.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The island is still in the Baring family. In 2017 they partnered with Camus, a family-owned cognac producer, to create Lambay Irish Whiskey. The island is used for ageing and blending, with water from the island&#8217;s Trinity Well used in the finishing stages.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: center;padding:10px\" src=\"https:\/\/thewhiskeycompanion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/lambayisland-scaled.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>What&#8217;s involved in the tour?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>You start in Malahide, 12 miles north of Dublin City, where a Lambay Brand Ambassador meets you and takes you to your vessel in a privately accessed marina.<\/li>\n<li>A 25 minute boat ride takes in the views of Malahide and the outer views of Lambay.<\/li>\n<li>On arrival you&#8217;re greeted by a member of the Baring family and a personal VIP tour of the island, including the historic castle, begins.<\/li>\n<li>After the walking tour of the island&#8217;s micro ecosystem, you retire to the Bothy beside the seashore for a tasting of the full Lambay range. You also visit the Sea Cask Room, where maturation happens, and take in the aroma of the &#8216;Angels&#8217; Share&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>On departure you get a gift of some whiskey goodies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sound good? Take a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whiskeyisland.ie\/private-island-experience\/\">https:\/\/www.whiskeyisland.ie\/private-island-experience\/<\/a> or email john@whiskeyisland.ie for more info.<\/p>\n<p>You can find me on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thewhiskeycompanion\/\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Carl_TWC\">Twitter<\/a>. I\u2019d be glad to chat whiskey and if you want to be featured just drop me a line!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wanted to visit Lambay island? Now&#8217;s your chance. Lambay Whiskey have just announced private island tours for groups of up to 12, from \u20ac2,700 (ex VAT), which works out at \u20ac225 a head for a full group. Some of you might know Lambay as the island barely 3 miles off the east coast of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,4,50],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-lambay","tag-whiskey-news","tag-whiskey-tours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskeycompanion.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskeycompanion.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskeycompanion.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskeycompanion.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskeycompanion.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskeycompanion.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskeycompanion.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskeycompanion.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskeycompanion.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskeycompanion.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskeycompanion.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}