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HINCH IRISH WHISKEY TO MAKE NORTH AMERICAN DEBUT Posted by Spirited Staff | Oct 9, 2020 | Distribution, Industry Update, Spirits, Consumer, Press Releases | 0  |      Hinch Irish Whiskey to Make North American Debut Sales Agreement with Chopin Imports Opens Doors to U.S. Market WILMINGTON, DE (October 08, 2020) – Chopin Imports Ltd. (CIL), the marketing company for Chopin Vodka brand and other best-in-class spirits, has inked a deal with Hinch Irish Whiskey, making CIL responsible for the exclusive North American sales and marketing rights to Hinch Irish Whiskey and Celtic-inspired Ninth Wave Gin. With the new agreement, CIL will represent the entire whiskey portfolio and the award-winning Ninth Wave Irish Gin. The initial launch will...

  Blue Spot Single Pot Still Cask Strength MARK MCLAUGHLINNOVEMBER 18, 2020 For any whiskey fan who has had the relative joy of visiting one of Ireland’s many whiskey bars over the past 5 years or so, I’d be absolutely certain that if they asked for a recommendation at the bar they would be recommended one of two whiskeys, Redbreast or Green Spot. This fact brings forward the relativity of said joy, as the point where many of the so-called ‘Whiskey Bars’ in Ireland fall down when compared with the great Whisky Bars of Scotland is the knowledge of the...

In a 200-year-old building on the docks of the River Suir, just a few hundred yards from where the Vikings first settled this town in the 10th century, one of the boldest experiments in the long history of Irish whiskey is being born.

The Irish whiskey industry now has 35 operating distilleries with another two-dozen announced and currently either in the planning stage or under construction. It has been a remarkable turnaround for an industry that, as late as 1988, had only two functioning distilleries. In the meantime, sales have soared from 200,000 cases in 1989, to over 11 million cases in 2020.

Bushmills Irish Whiskey has announced the release of a new collection of limited edition single malts inspired by The Giant’s Causeway.