When it comes to special edition whiskies Redbreast pulls out all the stops. This is the sixth edition to their highly sought after Dream Cask Series. A marriage of two dream casks, hand-selected by Master Blender, Billy Leighton, and Blender, Dave McCabe to create one exceptional whiskey.Stepping away from the usual sherry influences that Redbreast is know for. This is the first time a Redbreast release does not incorporate a some amount of sherry, this is a double barrel maturation.In one whiskey matured in a bourbon barrel, while the second spent its life in a ruby port pipe. These where then placed in 2 Tawny port pipes.

Redbreast was originally created in 1912 by the legendary bottlers and distillers Gilbey’s, and the early incarnations were always sourced from the old Jameson Distillery on Bow Street in Dublin. Over the years a variety of expressions were released that were bottled at either 10 years old or 12 years old.

Once the Jameson Distillery became part of Irish Distillers supplies of casks to Gilbey’s dried up and the last ‘Old Redbreast’ bottlings were released in 1985. The brand was subsequently sold to Irish Distillers and was fortunately revived in 1991 using whiskey sourced from the Midleton Distillery. All the bottlings released since then have been made using Midleton whiskey and in the main these make use of high-quality Sherry casks, with a lesser amount of Bourbon casks in each vatting. Whiskey connoisseurs have fallen back in love with Redbreast whiskey and for many it is the quintessential Irish Single Pot Still whiskey.