For fans of Inaugural Releases this is the perfect collection for you. 6 bottles from some of Irelands newer distillerys. Distilled on the Winter Solstice of 2019 and bottled on the Winter Solstice of 2022, Boann Distillery’s first aged Pot Still Irish Whiskey distilled in Drogheda in over 160 years. In 2019, the single pot still distillate was filled into different wine and spirit casks, including: NEOC (New Era of Oak Cask), PX, Armagnac, Sauternes, Moscatel, Chardonnay, Bordeaux, Rum and Marsala, and matured in the solitude of the distillery.The first bottles of ‘Solstice’, matured on site, came from a Pedro Ximenez hogshead 250ltr cask.The bottle design is a celebration of darkness into light, inspired by the Winter Solstice and the passing of time. Waterford The 1st Cuvée was created by head distiller Ned Gahan and is made up of whisky from the 36 farms that Waterford have worked with in their first year. It was originally released on Saturday 25th April 2020 and was strictly limited to 1,000 bottles. Ballykeefe Distillery, located in Kilkenney, is a family-owned Single Estate Whiskey Distillery, built in 2016 and began distilling whiskey in 2017. The whiskey is triple distilled from barley grown and harvested on the family farm. The Ging family have long standing family tradition of farming which goes back centuries. The whiskey is distilled in Irish designed, Italian made, copper stills, using deep well Ballykeefe water. The first release of seven individually bottled casks of Single Pot Still includes 986 bottles at 46% ABV. Only 700 of these special celebration bottles have been released so far. The first whiskey to be produced in Mayo in over 150 years. The Connacht Distillery has been handcrafted and barrel-aged onsite at the distillery’s location on the banks of the River Moy. Maturing in a combination of Kentucky Bourbon & Oloroso Sherry Barrels. Just 800 bottles have been released. The first inaugural release of Shortcross Irish Whiskey. This unique release is the first Irish Whiskey to be wholly distilled and released by a new Irish Whiskey distillery in Northern Ireland since the 1920’s and the first whiskey to be released outside of the Old Bushmills Distillery since the closure of the Old Comber and Coleraine distilleries. This whiskey was double distilled on Rademon Estate Distillery’s original 450L copper pot still which at the time was the smallest whiskey still in use on the island of Ireland.