It’s now more than six years since Whisky & Wisdom wrote its first article about Teeling whiskey, and there’s been three or four further articles along the way with subsequent reviews of their excellent whiskies. With the release of Teeling Blackpitts whiskey, the brand has put peated Irish whiskey back on the radar and it’s excited fans of the category worldwide. But before we dive into the specifics on the Blackpitts rekease, it’s worth recapping on the basics….
The Teeling Distillery was completed in Dublin in 2015 and became the first new distillery to be built in Dublin in over 120 years. It also became the first operating distillery in Dublin since the closure of the old Powers distillery in the mid 1970’s. While the distillery’s new spirit was quietly slumbering and maturing, the brand established itself by bottling older whiskey that had been distilled at Cooley. (Cooley had been founded by John Teeling in 1987, hence the connection.) The distillery’s first release of their own home-made spirit was the Single Pot Still release in September, 2018, and there have now been several batches of that bottled since. However, the new Teeling Blackpitts release is the next exciting home-made chapter…