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Burns Night Celebrations

Hannah Osbourne Monday 9th January 2023 0

Burns Night Celebrations The tradition of the Robbie Burns Dinner began five years after his death when a group of his devoted friends hosted a dinner to celebrate his life and work. The tradition rapidly caught on and was held around January 25th his birthday. That date, often referred to as Robert Burns Day, has become Scotland’s unofficial National Day. Garnering much more popularity then the official St. Andrews day! Now how to celebrate Robbie Burns Night? Traditionally it would be marke...

Celtic Whiskey Fest 2022

Hannah Osbourne Monday 17th October 2022 0

Celtic Whiskey Fest is back! After the incredible success of our online-only festival last year we’ve brought it back - but with a bit of change. This year we’ve decided to make the most of the lack of Covid and split our events into three areas! The first is our Dublin based tasting that will be happening throughout November with our incredible whiskey specialists and some inspiring guests! For the second element, we will be offering unique tasting packs so anyone who is unable to joi...

New In From The Bushmills Causeway Collection

Hannah Osbourne Wednesday 17th August 2022 0

We are delighted to be able to offer our customers the chance to pre-order the two new exciting releases from the ever-popular Bushmills Causeway Collection! Introducing… Bushmills Causeway Collection 2002 Vermouth The world’s first-ever vermouth cask-finished Irish single malt whiskey release and yet another exciting innovation from the world’s oldest licenced whiskey distillery – The Old Bushmills Distillery. Matured in oloroso sherry butts and bourbon barrels for over 1...

A Rum-Down On Rum

James Holohan Monday 15th August 2022 0

A Rum-Down On Rum Posted by: James on 15th August 2022 Category: Sláinte While whisk(e)y might be near and dear to our hearts here at Celtic Whiskey Shop, we love a good spirit as well. And so, as our friends across the pond celebrate their National Rum Day (and we celebrated World Rum Day last month), we thought this would be the perfect opportunity to turn the spotlight on rum once again and give you a rum-down on rums! After all, time flies when you’re having rum! Okay, okay, enough w...

Scotch Day at Celtic Whiskey Shop

James Holohan Tuesday 26th July 2022 0

It’s probably no surprise that us here at Celtic Whiskey Shop love whisk(e)y from all around the world. Irish whiskey, World Whiskeys, Scotch, they’ve all got a home under our roof. And so, when we heard our friends across the pond are celebrating their National Scotch Day, we thought we’d join in on the fun and take this opportunity to turn the spotlight onto, you guessed it, Scotch whisky! For those unfamiliar or new to Scotch Whisky, here’s the quick background: Scotch is made from m...

Producer Spotlight - Château du Breuil

Hannah Osbourne Tuesday 12th July 2022 0

During Whiskey Live 2022 we had an incredible 106 stands with exciting brands from all over the world. We were delighted to be able to invite some brands we work with closely to exhibit with us - one such producer was The French Spiritery, Château du Breuil Normandie. They produce approximately 420,000 bottles of exceptional Calvados each year. As such, they are the second-largest producer of Calvados Pays d'Auge, and we are delighted to stock them both in store and in our online shop...