Midleton Dair Ghaelach News Today

Looking at the top ten list of Whisky of the Year candidates from Jim Murray's Whisky Bible, one stands out perhaps as more worthy of the title - Midleton Dair Ghaelach.

Whiskey writer Jim Murray, once again courting controversy in some whisky circles, names Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye as Whisky of the Year.

We review Midleton Dair Ghaelach from the venerable Irish distillery, the first ever Irish whiskey to be aged in native Irish oak.

Midleton Dair Ghaelach Bluebell Forest Edition represents the newest experiment by the makers of Jameson in finishing Irish whiskey in rare Irish oak barrels.

This new whisky, the result of a six year project, will showcase the possibilities of Irish oak as a cask for aging this spirit type in.

We're living in a golden age of whiskey from the great island nation of Ireland. Get up to speed with our Irish whiskey basics primer.

Forget bourbon or Sherry casks. An increasing number of distillers are choosing to age their whiskies in barrels made from locally planted oak trees.

Bog oak pens, silver cufflinks and a €310 bottle of Midleton whiskey were among the gifts given by Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney over the past two years.

And so we come to it - our top of the top whiskey picks for 2016, as ranked by score by our reviewer team throughout the year.