Description
The distillery's inaugural 2020 single malt releases proved exceptionally popular. This is the second release of spirit produced using barley from Ballykilcavan farm in County Laois, grown by David Walsh-Kemmis and harvested in August 2015. The whisky was distilled in week 8 of 2016 and bottled in July 2020 after maturing 3 years 11 months and 18 days. Distillery Bottling is a term used to define a whisky bottled by the company that produced it, using the official branding of the distillery itself. This is also known as an "official bottling" or sometimes shortened to OB. Waterford Single Farm Origin Ballykilcavan Edition 1.2 The Waterford distillery was originally built as a state-of-the-art brewing Guinness facility by Diageo in 2003. It was purchased and transformed into a distillery by Mark Reynier in 2014. The former proprietor as Bruichladdich, Reynier was inspired to look to Ireland for his next project following the testimony from the Islay distillery's Dun.