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Irish Daily Mirror
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Daily Mirror
Celebrate Father's Day with 'Quite The Find', a Redbreast Irish whiskey dining experience at Pichet
This Father's Day, treat Dad to something truly special - an evening of exceptional whiskey and fine dining that's 'Quite the Find'. Join the table at Pichet on the 6th of July at 3:30 PM for an exclusive Redbreast Irish Whiskey tasting event. Guided by Andrew Dickey the Brand Engagement and Advocacy Team Manager for Redbreast and Irish Distillers, you'll explore the award-winning range, from the iconic 12 Year Old to the luxurious 27 Year Old. Enjoy a carefully curated 5-course tasting menu, with each dish thoughtfully paired to complement the distinct character of each whiskey. An unforgettable experience of flavour, storytelling and craftsmanship awaits - all of it set in the elegant ambiance of Pichet. The perfect gift for whiskey-loving dads and an unforgettable way to spend time with a loved one. Tickets are limited. €95 per person and can be purchased here. Pichet is a modern take on a classic bistro. Combining both French influence and modern Irish cuisine, it has been on the receiving end of numerous awards and Bib Gourmands since its inception in 2009. This year Pichet celebrated 16 consecutive years of holding the prestigious Michelin Bib Gourmand. Harry Quinn, Head chef at Pichet shared, 'I've always had a passion for working with the highest quality Irish ingredients. Creating a menu that brings the rich characteristics of Irish whiskey into each course has been a real privilege. The team here are excited to be part of something that brings people together to celebrate Irish skill and craft with friends and family, especially around Father's Day." Built on a loyal following of "those in the know", the Redbreast Family Collection is the No.1 premium Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey in the world. It offers a rich diversity of expressions, making it the definitive choice for those who appreciate the craftsmanship behind this traditional Irish spirit. Emma Waldron, Brand Manager of Redbreast Irish Whiskey adds, "I can think of no better way to celebrate the full complexity of flavour that the Redbreast collection is renowned for, than this remarkable five course whiskey pairing event. Pichet is one of Dublin's most celebrated city centre restaurants, we're honoured to be collaborating with them on this excellent dining experience where each dish is made to be enjoyed alongside a different Redbreast Irish Whiskey." COURSE 1 Croquette of Pig's Head and Black Pudding, Smoked Celeriac, Date Pureé, Whiskey Buttermilk Sauce Paired with Redbreast 12 COURSE 2 Chicken Liver Parfait, Whiskey Honey Gel, Poached Peach, Toasted House Brioche, Walnut Paired with Redbreast Lustau COURSE 3 Treacle & Whiskey Cured Salmon, Crab, Horseradish Cream, Beetroot, Granny Smith Apple, Lovage Paired with Redbreast 15 COURSE 4 John Stone Fillet of Beef, Glazed Beef Cheek, Charred Grelot Onion, Pomme Dauphine, Lindl Pepper Whiskey Sauce Paired with Redbreast 18 COURSE 5 Apple Tart Fine, Whiskey Caramel Sauce, Vanilla Ice Cream Closing Whiskey Redbreast 27 Note: Due to the nature of this event, Pichet is unable to cater for allergies as well as vegetarian and vegan options on this tasting menu. Ticket holders will be asked to confirm their booking over phone or call +353 1 677 1060 or email bookings@
Forbes
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
The SF World Spirits Competition Selects The Top Irish Pot Still Whiskey
The finalists for World's Best Pot Still Irish Whiskey Five Irish pot still whiskeys are finalists for the World's Best Irish Pot Still Whiskey at the 2025 San Francisco World Spirits Competition. Below are brief backgrounds and tasting notes for the five finalists. Yellow Spot, part of the historic Spot Whiskey range, is one of the legendary brands of Irish whiskey. The brand is owned by Mitchell & Son Wine Merchants in Dublin and produced at the Midleton Distillery in Cork. This 12-year-old expression matures in ex-bourbon, sherry, and Malaga wine casks, offering a complex and layered profile. The whiskey presents a rich and creamy nose, showcasing aromas of lemon cheesecake, butterscotch, cooked cereal/malt, butter, and cinnamon. The palate reveals a sweet and spicy character, enhanced by buttered toast, jammy and dried fruits, nutmeg, clove, and candied lemon zest. The finish is long, sweet, and complex, with lingering raisin notes and cooked cereal. Redbreast is a legendary Irish whiskey brand and a perennial medalist in international spirit competitions. The 21-year-old expression is a premium whiskey from the Midleton Distillery. It's crafted from a mash bill of malted and unmalted barley, triple distilled in copper pot stills, and matured in a combination of American ex-bourbon barrels and first-fill Spanish Oloroso sherry butts. The result is a rich and complex whiskey that many consider among the finest pot still whiskeys in the world. The whiskey is rich and complex on the nose, showcasing a wide array of aromas, including fresh tropical fruits, nuts, and rich dried fruit. The palate reveals a pronounced Sherry influence, accompanied by vanilla, toasted oak, an assortment of fresh and dried fruits, nuts, and subtle wood spice notes. The finish is long and layered, featuring lingering spices, lemon curd, sugar cookies, and gingerbread notes. The Redbreast whiskey range This exceptional 27-year-old expression from Redbreast is matured in a combination of bourbon, sherry, and ruby port casks. Bottled at cask strength, it showcases the pinnacle of Redbreast's craftsmanship. A perennial gold medalist in international spirit competitions, it is one of the great Irish whiskeys. Like its younger sibling, the whiskey has an incredibly broad aroma, encompassing fresh and dried tropical and orchard fruits, nuts, caramel or butterscotch, and vanilla. The palate is smooth and creamy, showcasing Sherry/fruit cake, vanilla, toasted oak, nuts, and subtle spice notes. The finish is long and fruity, with lingering spice and seasoned oak notes. Redbreast Cask Strength is a more flavorful, intense, and higher-proof version of the classic 12-year-old Redbreast. It matures in a combination of ex-bourbon and Oloroso sherry casks. The nose reveals tropical, orchard, and citrus fruits, particularly dried apricot and golden raisin, accompanied by a medley of spices and toasted wood. The palate is rich, flavorful, and creamy, showcasing succulent fresh and dried fruits, spices, vanilla, and a hint of oak. The finish is exceptionally long, with lingering notes of fruit, spice, toasted oak, and digestive biscuit/cooked cereal. Boann Distillery's PX Cask Finish is a limited-edition single pot still Irish whiskey matured in Oloroso Sherry hogsheads and then finished in Pedro Ximénez casks from Malaga. Some of the PX casks are made from chestnut wood, imparting notes of nuts, bitter chocolate, and dried fruits to the whiskey. Dried fruit, dark chocolate, and a hint of spice are featured on the nose. The palate exhibits PX Sherry notes of figs, dates, raisins, caramel, butterscotch, vanilla, and seasoned oak. The finish is long and rich, with lingering notes of caramel, dark fruit, and sherry sweetness. The SFWSC is among the world's most respected and influential spirits competitions. Founded in 2000, it brings together a panel of seasoned industry experts—including master distillers, spirits journalists, and bar professionals—to conduct blind tastings across various spirit categories. Awards from the SFWSC are highly coveted, often serving as a benchmark for quality and craftsmanship in the global spirits industry. Its rigorous judging process and international prestige make it a valuable platform for emerging and established brands. Redbreast, one of the leading Irish whiskey producers, dominates the Best 2025 SFWSC Irish Pot Still Whiskey finalists. The 27-year-old Redbreast is nothing less than legendary, having won top Irish whiskey honors at numerous international spirit competitions. Together, these whiskeys showcase the remarkable breadth and sophistication of Irish pot still whiskeys. If you're a fan of Irish whiskey, these expressions should be part of your collection. If you are unfamiliar with Irish whiskey and wish to learn more, these finalists are a good place to start.
Irish Independent
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Irish pot still sips to sample at Whiskey Live weekend
Whiskey geeks will be busy honing their list of rarities to hunt down, but the event is also a fun opportunity for newer fans to get to grips with whiskey's different styles. Whether you're attending or not, doing a comparative tasting is a sensory-led way to lock down your understanding — say of the key Irish styles of single pot still, single malt, single grain and blended whiskeys. This can be done at home for the price of a round in a pub. Miniature 5cl bottles (or minis) are widely available in off-licences. Ordering online from the likes of Whiskey Live's organisers Celtic Whiskey Shop will broaden your choices. You could equally conduct your own comparative tasting of one style, such as single pot still. This quintessentially Irish whiskey has close connections to single malt. Both are distilled in traditional copper pot stills, whose rotund bellies and elegant necks were once standard. In the 19th century, Irishman Aeneas Coffey patented his more efficient continuous column still that now produces grain-based whiskeys, vodka and others. The term 'single' means the whiskey has come from one distillery. How they differ is that single malt is made fully from malted barley (heated to trigger germination) whereas single pot still also contains unmalted barley and, potentially, other ingredients like oats, rye or wheat in its mash bill (aka recipe). Single pot still developed in Ireland as a way to avoid late 18th-century tax on malted barley, but became beloved for its distinct spice and oily texture. Books have been written on the style's development and nuances, the bible being historian Fionnán O'Connor's A Glass Apart: Irish Single Pot Still Whiskey. Industry definitions have been written too, and feisty manifestos challenging these: Peter Mulryan of Blackwater Distillery has been doing an erudite, irreverent and ever-entertaining job of interrogating what he sees as the unfairly restrictive industry definitions of the style, which currently only allow up to 5pc of those 'other ingredients'. Each of the distilleries featured here will be pouring at least one pot still whiskey at their Whiskey Live stall and, in some cases, masterclasses. Look out too for old guard examples of single pot still such as Redbreast, Middleton Very Rare and the Spot family and other disruptors such as Killowen Distillery. Whiskeys of the week Blackwater Clashmore 1824 Irish Whisky, Waterford, €95 (50cl), 47pc, limited to 420 bottles A fascinating reimagining of a heritage pot still mash bill from 200 years ago, with 51pc unmalted barley, 24pc oats, 20pc malt and 5pc turf-smoked malt, aged fully in a sherry cask as Irish whiskey often was. Its rich amber hue heralds dark apple syrup, sticky toffee, dates and raisins, with a wisp of turf smoke and a fine spice and pithy bitterness giving grip to that richness. Or try Blackwater's 'experimental pot still' Oaty McOatFace, with nearly one-third oats. The Wine Centre, Celtic Whiskey Shop, James Fox, Micil Earls Island Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey, Galway, €59, 46pc Taking inspiration from old-school Connemara fuisce with delicate hints of turf smoke and coastal iodine character, and from Galway's trade links with a Bordeaux red wine cask finish adding red fruit to candied orchard fruit aromas and earthy notes of leather and beeswax. Selected SuperValus, McCambridge's, Bradleys, Celtic Whiskey Shop, Skellig Triple Cask Single Pot Still, Kerry, €65 (70cl), 43.4pc This award-winning Six18 Step Collection limited release was finished in PX sherry casks and briefly in a peated cask — though you'd hardly know it. Layered and moreish, fresh and earthy, with salinity and spice, orange peel and tropical fruit, heather and hay. Delicious. Molloy's, Celtic Whiskey Shop, The Wine Centre, The Vinyeard Belfast, DrinkStore, Writers' Tears Copper Pot, Carlow, €50 (70cl), 40pc Walsh Whiskey produces a Writers' Tears single pot still, but this is an unusual blend of single pot still and single malt (both produced in copper pot stills) once known as the 'Champagne of Irish whiskey'. Warm and viscous with fresh fruit salad meets vanilla fudge and spicy ginger notes. O'Briens, Mitchells, Celtic Whiskey Shop and independents, Two Stacks Single Pot Still – Double Barrel, Co Down, €60 (70cl), 43pc Finished in ex-American rye casks to embolden the spices, this is punchy with caramel, vanilla, coconut, prunes and marmalade, peppery but softened by wild honey notes and oily creaminess, finishing leafy-fresh. (Dram in a Can, €8, 10cl). Celtic Whiskey Shop, The Wine Centre, Blackrock Cellar,
Daily Mail
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Hairy Biker star SI KING on why he never 'splits the G' and which drink he thinks is absolutely awful
My favourite drink as a kid was the bottle of milk with the straw you used to get at school. 11 o'clock milk time at St Joseph's Infants in Birtley, County Durham, was very exciting because we also got a digestive biscuit. Then Margaret Thatcher took the milk away, the cow. I must have been about five, and a lot less hairy back then. My first alcohol was a sip of Warninks Advocaat, aged seven, at Christmas with my Auntie Hilda. My Uncle George, her husband, was the finest home brewer and he would give me light ale on the bench in his garden with his mates. He was 75 and would talk about 'the ancient art of sitting', which he said was disappearing. If I wake up before 6am, I go downstairs, make a cup of builder's tea with milk, no sugar, come back, put a candle on in the bedroom then drink the tea as I nod in and out of sleep. I rarely spend more than a tenner on a bottle of wine, but that's not true of whisky. If it's been a really good year, I'll go for a 21-year-old Redbreast. At £287, it's a beautifully crafted Irish whiskey with apricot notes. I had a negroni on my first date with my girlfriend Jen in February, two years ago. I was playing in a band called Groovetrain in a place [in Newcastle] called Hoochie Coochie. I finished the set and we had a drink together. The rest, as they say, is short-term history. What I enjoy most of an evening is a stout or a Guinness with a little whisky on the side, and that will be it for the night. There's a beautiful whisky called Spey. The distillery is owned by a lad from Sunderland. I'm not the kind to 'split the G' of the Guinness, though. God almighty, just enjoy the Guinness and stop being so anal. The most memorable place I've ever had a drink was on top of the Faena Hotel, in Buenos Aires, on my 40th birthday in 2006. There was a hell of a thunderstorm and I was watching it with Dave [Myers, Si's co-star in The Hairy Bikers, who died last year aged 66] as I looked out over the River Plate, drinking a chardonnay. The hotel had kindly upgraded me to one of those suites where you can't find anything, with secret panels that opened rooms, and I felt such a Charlie because I had to call reception for help finding the bathroom. In the end I stuck electrician's tape from my bike kit on the panels so I knew where to push. The drink that makes me feel most stylish is a gin martini with a twist, shaken so you get shards of ice foaming on the top. The most famous person I've drunk with is jazz singer Gregory Porter at the Royal Albert Hall (although he wasn't drinking). Or maybe it was Jesus Christ – I used to be an altar boy. The worst drink I've ever tasted is feni, an Indian drink. They crush up cashew nuts and you mix it with Coca-Cola. It is awful, like firewater from Satan's groin. I'm most likely to sing Gerry Rafferty's 'Get It Right Next Time' after a few drinks. Me and whoever fancies joining in. The best advice I've ever had over a drink was: 'You have some talent, so have the courage to take an opportunity if you see it.' It was from Derek, the organist at the Working Men's Club in Birtley. He was extremely talented. Where did that advice lead? To a lifetime of blagging it. The person I'd most like to share a drink with, alive or dead, is Dave, because he left a bit too soon. We'd have a beautiful Montrachet at the seaside, bikes behind us and a telescopic fishing rod between us. We'd have spent the day riding around excited about fishing and wine! We'd need accommodation as we would definitely open a second.
Irish Daily Mirror
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Daily Mirror
Andrew Scott announced as brand ambassador for popular Irish whiskey
Top Irish actor Andrew Scott has teamed up with a whiskey brand for a major new campaign. 'Quite the Find' is a campaign by Redbreast to promote their single pot Irish whiskey. The Ripley star has joined the campaign, which is about uncovering hidden gems. Andrew said: "I'm delighted to be partnering with Redbreast on this campaign to encourage creativity and discovery worldwide. It's been really fun to be part of, especially given their initiative to encourage filmmakers of the future, whose voices need to be supported now more than ever." The campaign is encouraging audiences across Ireland to dig deeper to unearth something amazing, making the search worthwhile, while also highlighting the 'Redbreast Unhidden' Award, a short film competition run in partnership with SXSW that launched earlier this year. This competition aims to spotlight short film formats, offering a curated selection of new films and talent. Claire Tolan, Managing Director at Irish Distillers, maker of Redbreast Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey, added: "There is nothing quite like the joy of discovering something extraordinary – for example, the joy that comes with tasting an incredible whiskey like Redbreast for the first time, and finding your new favourite. "This campaign rolling out across Ireland and our partnership with Andrew Scott reflects our commitment to staying true to the heritage that defines Redbreast, the world's most awarded single pot still Irish whiskey, offering a unique experience that encourages savouring each sip in the company of compelling storytelling – born from a nation of storytellers."
