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The Irish Fiddler whiskey

Postby DublinGus » Fri Dec 07, 2012 3:34 am

Anyone know anything about this whiskey?


http://irishfiddlerwhiskey.com/
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Re: The Irish Fiddler whiskey

Postby DavidH » Fri Dec 07, 2012 10:20 am

I took a snap in the CWS last week, and sampled them. They are Cooley blends, it seems. The liqueur was kinda nice; I'd like to revisit it anyway.

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Re: The Irish Fiddler whiskey

Postby IainB » Fri Dec 07, 2012 12:14 pm

It doesn't look like anything I'll be buying any time soon. One designed for the tourists methinks.
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Re: The Irish Fiddler whiskey

Postby Luke Gough » Fri Dec 07, 2012 2:58 pm

Why don't they just have this on the label and be done with it? :thumbsdown:

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Re: The Irish Fiddler whiskey

Postby IainB » Fri Dec 07, 2012 3:17 pm

Or release a whiskey that's called "Drinkin' Singin' and Fightin'"
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Re: The Irish Fiddler whiskey

Postby TheWhiskeyBro » Fri Dec 07, 2012 9:04 pm

Hi David,

Afaik these whiskeys are produced by http://irishfiddlerwhiskey.com/ from casks previously acquired from Cooley a number of years ago.

Heide at the http://www.irelandwhiskeytrail.com seems to have the lowdown.

Apparently whiskey enthusiast Colm Redmond is behind this Galway whiskey, who knows he may even have aspirations for a distillery???

It is featured in Heidi's article here http://www.irelandwhiskeytrail.com/?pg=Zetland_Country_House_Hotel_Connemara.php

Martine Nouet, whiskey writer, consultant and food & whiskey matcher worked on the project for/with Colm.

Colm is the owner of the http://www.zetland.com/

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Re: The Irish Fiddler whiskey

Postby DavidH » Fri Dec 07, 2012 10:39 pm

Excellent, thanks! It seems I should have heard about Irish Fiddler a few years ago.
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Re: The Irish Fiddler whiskey

Postby IrishWhiskeyChaser » Sat Dec 08, 2012 10:33 pm

DavidH wrote:Excellent, thanks! It seems I should have heard about Irish Fiddler a few years ago.



Well it does say Ireland's best kept secret on the Fiddlers label ... So maybe that's why ...?
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Re: The Irish Fiddler whiskey

Postby DavidH » Sun Dec 09, 2012 12:51 am

IrishWhiskeyChaser wrote:
DavidH wrote:Excellent, thanks! It seems I should have heard about Irish Fiddler a few years ago.



Well it does say Ireland's best kept secret on the Fiddlers label ... So maybe that's why ...?

In that case, top job! :D
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Re: The Irish Fiddler whiskey

Postby DublinGus » Tue Dec 11, 2012 4:59 pm

DavidH wrote:I took a snap in the CWS last week, and sampled them. They are Cooley blends, it seems. The liqueur was kinda nice; I'd like to revisit it anyway.

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David where are the two other bottles in the picture from?
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Re: The Irish Fiddler whiskey

Postby DavidH » Tue Dec 11, 2012 7:01 pm

DublinGus wrote:David where are the two other bottles in the picture from?

All three are from the same company. Two are blends and one is a liqueur.
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Re: The Irish Fiddler whiskey

Postby DavidH » Sun Jul 07, 2013 8:12 pm

These guys are talking about a distillery in the West:

http://www.liquidirish.com/2013/07/a-di ... eland.html
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Re: The Irish Fiddler whiskey

Postby John » Sun Jul 07, 2013 9:45 pm

I heard about that particular project a few months back and remember feeling like I knew less about it afterwards than before the brief. The 'accolade' of Ireland's best kept secret could really be attributed to the entire venture, never mind one release within the range. Hard to understand this given the opportunity for promotion afforded to fledgling distilleries by the Irish Whiskey Society.
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