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2nd October 2013 |
Teeling
Whiskey Company & The Palace Bar partner
to revive Dublin whiskey bonder
tradition.
 Teeling
Whiskey Company, the leading independent
Irish whiskey company, has partnered
with the well-known Palace Bar on Fleet
Street in Dublin to launch The Palace
Bar “Fourth Estate“ Single Malt Irish
Whiskey.
The Palace Bar release is the latest in
a range of collaborations by the Teeling
Whiskey Company. It is the first release
in a series of releases of Irish whiskey
created exclusively for The Palace Bar.
Owned by the Aherne family since 1946,
the iconic Palace Bar used to bottle
their own whiskey under the Palace Bar
brand – this was a commonplace practice
among Dublin pubs throughout the 1940,
50’s and 60’s. However, with the
development of on-site distillery
bottling, this practice disappeared from
Dublin in the 1970’s only to be
resurrected by The Palace Bar.
The Palace Bar has since the 1940’s
played host to some of Ireland’s finest
literary wordsmiths, coined the Fourth
Estate by the essayist Edmund Burke in
1787 to illustrate the influential power
of the scribe on society. With three of
the nation’s great newspaper titles
published scarcely a whiskey casks
distance from Fleet Street, The Palace
Bar became the social home for writers,
poets, newsmen and correspondents.
As depicted on the front label from Alan
Reeves 1940 illustration, this Fourth
Estate Batch No. 1, in a new Historic
Series of unique bottlings created
exclusively for The Palace Bar, pays
homage to the literary and journalistic
melee that gathered beneath the stained
glass windows of the Palace Bar’s back
lounge.
The Palace Bar’s Willie Aherne,
commented, "You can't beat tradition –
To have my Father and myself hand bottle
and label our own whiskey, something my
grandfather would have done in the
Palace was really a special moment. This
was an amazing project to work on with
an Irish family owned whiskey company
working with an Irish family run pub."
This limited edition of 1,000 bottles
consists a combination of hand selected
casks by Willie Aherne and Patrons of
the Palace Bar and includes whiskey over
21 years old. Hand-bottled and labeled
by the Aherne family at 46% with no
chill-filtration allows all the true
flavours of the whiskey to be retained.
From its robust nose to its fully
balanced array of flavours it celebrates
all that is good about Irish whiskey.
Jack Teeling of the Teeling Whiskey
Company commented "We are delighted to
be able to work with the Palace and the
Aherne family on reviving the lost
tradition of Whiskey Bonders in Dublin.
The Palace has been at the forefront in
recent years in promoting and providing
a showcase for all Irish whiskeys. We
are proud to be able to work with them
on releasing such a unique Irish whiskey
at a time of great interest in the
category".
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