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Tullamore Dew, rendered in most branding as Tullamore D.E.W. (typically with the dots de-emphasised using colour and font size), is a brand of Irish whiskey produced by William Grant & Sons. [1] It is the second-largest-selling brand of Irish whiskey globally, with sales of over 1,500,000 cases per annum as of 2020.
The Tullamore Distillery is an Irish whiskey distillery located in Tullamore, County Offaly, Ireland, established in 2014 and owned by William Grant & Sons.It is the first new distillery to have been constructed on a greenfield site in Ireland in over 100 years, and the first to operate in Tullamore since 1954.
Irish whiskey is a protected European Geographical Indication (GI) under Regulation (EC) No 110/2008. [37] As of 29 January 2016, production, labelling and marketing of Irish whiskey must be verified by the Irish revenue authorities as conforming with the Department of Agriculture's 2014 technical file for Irish whiskey. [38]
Irish Distillers is a subsidiary of the French drinks conglomerate Pernod Ricard.It is the largest distiller of Irish whiskey, distilling popular brands such as Jameson and Powers, in addition to premium whiskeys such as Redbreast and Midleton Very Rare.
At the time of the sale, Paddy was the fourth largest-selling Irish whiskey brand in the world, with sales of 200,000 9-litre cases per annum, across 28 countries worldwide. [9] In 2020, Paddy's was named the Best Blended Irish Whiskey at the International Whiskey Competition. The whiskey also earned a silver medal and second place for Best ...
Original unopened D.W.D. bottle, Palace Bar, Fleet Street, Dublin. Founder John Brannick was "for twenty-five years in the distillery of Sir John Power", [5] and for twenty years after that was Chief Distiller for Messrs. George Roe & Son, [5] [6] before leaving that position "to superintend the building of the Dublin Whiskey Distillery at Jones's-road". [5]
The distillery was founded in 1757 by Matthew MacManus, who may have distilled elsewhere before founding Kilbeggan. [2] [3] Although information about the early years of the distillery is scarce, documentation suggests that in its early years the distillery operated with a 232 gallon still, and an annual output of 1,500 gallons.
This development may in turn have influenced the modern Irish word fuisce ("whiskey"). The phrase uisce beatha was the name given to distilled alcohol by Irish monks of the Early Middle Ages , and is simply a translation of the Latin phrase aqua vitae .