Given the whiskey profile that the town now has nationally, Dingle members of the IWS will be invited to a blind tasting in order to sample and vote for the various whiskey's of the year for 2019. This will be only the second time that we here in Kerry will be afforded the opportunity to influence just who the winners will be at the awards ceremony in October and we will be joined by the members of the Dublin, Cork & Kilkenny organisations in voting in this years awards. Belfast and Waterford may also be included. The results of this vote will be announced to all at the Irish Whiskey Awards which will be held this year for the first time in Dingle Distillery on Thursday, October 17, 2019.
The evening will involve sitting down to nose and taste whiskey from several different categories and to award points accordingly. Nobody will be told on the night just what they are tasting which makes this a very unique event.
This event is open to fully paid up Irish Whiskey Society and Celtic Whiskey Club members only. This will be strictly applied. Given that tickets for the annual award ceremony are always in very scarce supply, only members countrywide who actually take part in one of the sample tasting events around the country will be permitted to apply for tickets for the event in the towns distillery in October.
Lets get along to this evening and show the rest of the country just what we here in Kerry can do.
N.B. Attendees are not required to remain at this event for 3 hours. Attendees can arrive at 1800 hours or any time which suits them, finish their sampling by 7, 7.45 etc and then leave. Latest admission will be at 2000hrs to finish at 2100hrs.
Walsh Whiskey - A Selection of The Irishman and Writers' Tears
Thursday 25th July 2019 at 8:00pm
Wynn's Hotel, Abbey St., Dublin 1.
For our July Monthly Tasting on Thur 25th at 8:00pm we are delighted to have Woody Kane, Brand Ambassador with Walsh Whiskey to share some stunning editions from The Irishman and Writer's Tears range. It is lining up to be another great event with some hard to find expressions and some Society favourites.
With a cask that travelled between US, Dingle and Walsh Whiskey with fills of new make, coffee stout and single malt we've got a rare expression; The Irishman Single Malt Coffee Stout Cask Finish a limited edition of only 240 bottles between Walsh Whiskey and Dick Mack's Pub, Dingle.
Then another Limited Edition and a Society favourite, The Irishman 12 Year Old Florio Marsala Cask Finish. A limited release in 2017 of only 320 Bottles.
Together with The Irishman 12 Year Old Single Malt and Founders Reserve core editions this will be a fantastic selection from The Irishman...
Next up is a selection from the Writers' Tears range. We’re excited to have the unique privilege of being the first group to try the first drop of Writers' Tears Cask Strength 2019, latest edition of their limited release.
One of the favourites from the recent Committee Selection Tasting is back by popular demand, Peter White’s selected Writers' Tears Marsala Cask Finish. This expression was matured in American oak Bourbon casks and finished for 12 months in only five Marsala hogshead casks, a limited release with only 2430 bottles produced.
We will also be treated to the latest core release, Writers' Tears Double Oak, launched recently and getting great reviews. Together with the ever popular Writers' Tears Copper Pot this will be a superb line up for this range.
We're looking forward to seeing you there,
Sláinte, Brian & the events team.
We are honoured to be invited to participate in this year’s Irish Whiskey Awards. Places are available to members who register for this event. Booking for Day 1 closes on Tuesday 23th July.
Every year Irish Whiskey Award Judges are needed to step forward for the tough but rewarding task of judging the whiskeys.
This year the awards will be splitting up the categories over two days in Dublin so that each day incorporates different whiskey categories. Attendees are more than welcome to attend both tasting sessions or just one, please note if you want to attend both days you need to book on to each day.
We are being invited to this event for free, however when booking please ensure you can actually attend to be fair to other members and to the awards staff who have to set out all the samples and tasting mats.
Irish Whiskey Awards - which are now in their seventh year - the categories are as follows:
The Irish Whiskey Awards encourage all judges to start on a full stomach and use the spittoons provided. A break for food is also highly recommended.
We are honoured to be invited to participate in this year’s Irish Whiskey Awards. Places are available to members who register for this event. Booking for Day 2 closes on Sunday 28th July.
We are being invited to this event for free, however when booing please ensure you can actually attend to be fair to other members and to the awards staff who have to set out all the samples and tasting mats.
August Tasting Event
Thursday 29th August at 8:00pm
Our Monthly Tasting for August will take place at Wynn's Hotel on Thursday 29th August at 8:00pm. More details will be announced at our July tasting...
In September, the Dingle chapter of the Irish Whiskey Society will once again welcome you all to the latest incarnation of what have been some of the whiskey tastings of the past couple of years, not just in the town but the entire country! During this year we have been lucky indeed to have had several whiskey ambassadors’ from Ireland’s distillery’s travel to Dingle to present their wares to us and for this years ambassadors whiskey tasting, we hope to expand on that theme. IWS Dingle hope to have up to eight of them in the same room together and just to add a bit of craic and a further twist to the standard tasting format, they will present each other’s whiskeys blind. In other words, they will be presenting not their own brands but those of the other presenters, without knowing just what it is they are presenting.
Previously, this event was held in October but we have brought this year's one forward by one month to try to ensure clement weather for all of those travelling to the town.
We look forward to having them explain to us just what it is that motivates them to do what they do, what their own favourite drams are and just where they see Irish whiskey in ten or even twenty years’ time. As usual, they will be open to questions from our expert audience and there are bound to be a lot of laughs on the evening. There will also be some food provided on the night.
We may also be fortunate enough to witness Crystal Master Craftsman, Sean Daly demonstrate just how he produces those beautiful Dingle Crystal whiskey glasses.
There will be a bus provided and this will pick up attendees at 19.15 hours outside John Benny's pub, Strand St or people can make their own way to the workshop.
Whiskeys Tasted
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We have a truly special Scotch and Irish whiskey tasting in the company of world renowned critic and Keeper of the Quaich Charles MacLean and the Scottish Malt Whisky Society (SMWS), lined up for October. As most of you are aware, 2019 is the tenth anniversary of our society and we wanted to do something really special for our members both in Dingle and Dublin. We are hoping to have up to 20 members travel to the town to see just what a great job we are doing here in Kerry.
We were privileged to have Charles come to Dublin from Scotland in 2016 and he produced one of the best tastings that the society has ever hosted and indeed opened members eyes to what the Scotch Malt Whiskey Society is really about.
As a result of this, we have had our very own SMWS tastings in Dingle but they will pale into insignificance in comparison to what Charles will offer on the night.
For those of you unfamiliar with our distant Scottish cousins, the SMWS was founded in the late 1970s by Phillip “Pip” Hills and a small group of like-minded spirits in an even smaller kitchen with a large bottle of Glenfarclas drawn straight from the cask. Today, their headquarters in Leith is home to a reservoir of staggering expressions from across not just Scotland’sbut the world's whiskey-scape and their sleek, discreet, dark green bottles have become liquid icons of Scotland’s finest fluids. On the evening, we will be tasting MacLean’s hand selected range from those same members-only bottlings as he walks us through the nooks and crannies of his national nectar with a depth and insight afforded by a lifetime in the heart of world whisky criticism.
The author of numerous classics such as Whiskypedia and Whisky: A Liquid History, MacLean is a living legend on the Scottish single malt stage and it is our absolute pleasure to invite him and his society to Dingle for what we’re very confident will be a night to remember and the beginning of an Auld Acquaintance n'er forgot in years to come.
Amongst the selection, there will be a very rare & unique SMWS Irish whiskey as well as four of our own society bottlings on offer.
We can absolutely guarantee you that this will be an evening not to be missed.
Doors open: 7:00pm
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