The Irish Whiskey Museum – Dublin
The Irish Whiskey Museum, which is housed in an Edwardian style listed building on the bottom of Grafton Street is the first Irish whiskey museum in the world!The Museum is housed over three floors with lift access to every floor. Together with excellent bus routes and close proximity to train stations, not to mention several multi storey car parks nearby, in terms of accessibility, the location is hard to beat. The building has been carefully and sympathetically refurbished and has wonderful views over the front of Trinity College and College Green from our Cafe Bar at the entrance level to the Museum.
Tours – The Irish Whiskey Museum tells the story of Irish whiskey from its origins to the present day and gives visitors a glimpse of social and political history during the various stages of the rise and fall and rebirth of the whiskey industry in Ireland. Visitors availing of the tour option are given a guided tour of the museum during which our very knowledgeable guides tell stories from the various stages of history. The tours are complemented by state of the art technology and interactive props through four very different areas of the museum representing different stages in the development and growth of whiskey in Ireland. Tours run every day except Christmas day from 10am to 6pm (last tour).
Private Hire – At the Irish Whiskey Museum, we also cater for small to medium sized private groups and parties for every occasion. The atmosphere in the museum is cosy and intimate whether there is 20 or 120 in attendance and we can cater for both size groups and everything in between. Events are generally held in the evening time once the last public tour has ended. We are very flexible and we will try our best to accommodate any type of event that potential clients are considering. Whether you are entertaining clients, team building, having a staff get-together or whatever the occasion, we will be happy to discuss the options available.
For more information, check out the venue hire section on our website at http://www.irishwhiskeymuseum.ie
Rare and Vintage Whisky Specialists – Lions Whisky
Whether you are looking for a very special rare vintage bottle of whisky or your favorite everyday dram, you have come to the right place! Lions Whisky have proudly sold through 30 years experience many thousands of fantastic bottlings delivering on a vision to serve even better and faster making your visit an enjoyable and memorable experience. So browse Lions Whisky to your content and when and if you are ready, safely place your order or contact Lions Whisky for further details or information. They will be happy to help you through the process.
From all at LION’S WHISKY…SLAINTE!
Lion’s Whisky has been awarded:
Whisky Magazine’s Icons of Whisky
Highly Commended 2016
Online Retailer of the year
Nickolls and Perks Wine and Spirits Merchant
Nickolls and Perks is the UK’s oldest provincial wine and spirits merchant; established in 1797, the company has been trading independently ever since. Today Nickolls and Perks remains a close knit organisation, operating from the heart of the West Midlands with a small dedicated team under third generation family ownership.
They specialise in Cru Classé Bordeaux, Champagne, Whisky and Vintage Port, however have a rapidly growing concern in fine Burgundy and top cru Rhône wines. Regularly holding tasting events in their own 16th century sandstone cellars, Nickolls and Perks are also the organisers behind the Midlands Whisky Festival.
Their expertise and commitment to personal service and quality merchandise helped ensure they were shortlisted in the 2013 IWC Merchants Awards under two categories:
Regional Merchant of the Year (Midlands-north)
Bordeaux Specialist Merchant of the Year
Please visit their website or contact them for more information.
Online Retail Directory Listings Including The Whisky Vault
The Whisky Vault est. 2008 is an online rare whisky specialist store providing top quality rare and collectable whiskies direct to your front door – globally.
The Whisky Vault was born from ideas created by Philip and Richard Hawley, a father/son relationship based in Yorkshire, UK. An incredibly enthusiastic business currently run as an entirely family-oriented project.
With over two thousand items, including over 1800 single malts, there are expressions of whisky that are very rare and indeed sought after. The Whisky Vault endeavour to keep the website exciting and fresh and therefore are consistently adding new products to their already extensive range of single malt and blended whiskies.
They continue to be recognised as one of the market leaders in terms of their ability to acquire exceptional malts with expressions that rank back as far as the early 20th Century.
With a forte to supply unique, rare and collectable specimens to the world’s army of whisky lovers, The Whisky Vault prides itself in delivering a fair, high quality and efficient customer service.
Bonhams Whisky Auctions – Latest Directory Listing with Malt Marketing
As Malt Marketing continues to introduce more of the finest places to buy rare and collectible whisky, we are pleased to introduce Bonhams Whisky Department. Bonhams specialises in the sourcing and global auction sales of Vintage Single Malt and Blended Whisky and is run by Martin Green who has been the whisky specialist at Bonhams since 2008 after a career in whisky auctions stretching back over 30 years.
He is credited with devising and holding the first ever dedicated whisky sale in 1989. Today, Bonhams holds four whisky sales a year in Edinburgh and four sales in Hong Kong (two of which are combined with Fine Wine). These attract buyers from around the world and regularly achieve sale rates of over 90%
Martin is acknowledged as one of the country’s foremost authorities on whisky and has written widely on the subject.
Notable single owner collections: The Willard S. Folsom Collection, sourced from San Francisco comprising of over 3500 bottles offered in Global sales at Bonhams during 2009 and 2010, the largest whisky collection to appear on the auction market.
For further information and for details of up and coming whisky auctions, please see Bonhams website.
