Dingle 10-year-old single malt

Some time ago, Dingle released a 10-year-old single malt, alongside the NAS single malt and a new core range single pot still. Happy days! While the spirits industry is struggling, its good to see newer distilleries come to life and release a core line-up.

Dingle was one of the first in the new era of Irish distilleries, opening in 2012. They first did a number of batch releases, always with their own liquid (although, as far as I remember the very first one, before the batch releases, was sourced), each with their own cask profile, and always one at 46% and one at cask strength.

When I first came across Dingle whiskey, I had just started exploring and learning about the world of Irish whiskey, and was disappointed finding that behind almost all the names and labels were still only four distilleries. Then Dingle came along with their batch releases.

When I tasted their first whiskeys I loved them and bought a few bottles, even at a crazy shipping price since I lived in Sweden back then. They were very young, but I loved them. What I loved more than anything was the addition of something different on the Irish whiskey scene, both in terms of flavour profile and the audacity to release their very first drops of whiskey, even if not "ready" at only 3 years old. We were allowed to taste their work in progress over the years and I've always admired Dingle for that.

We visited Dingle in 2017 and later in 2022, when we got to visit the warehouse and taste some delicious cask samples. Later that year they started the Wheel of the year series with one new whiskey bottling for each of the Celtic holidays as well as Wren's day, the first being the Samhain release, a single malt finished in a tasty Moscatel sherry cask.

The 10-year-old single malt

Dingle was one of the first to offer a core range whiskey distilled on site, although I may be missing something here since some lesser known distilleries have silently been releasing their own as well, but perhaps not as core range at the time. Dingle was definitely the first to release a core range 10-year-old whiskey available in their core portfolio and distilled at their own distillery.

Core range was always important to me, after a number of years when distilleries and other whiskey brands came out with one limited edition after another and for a while I stopped engaging in Irish whiskey because it was exhausting, too expensive and I just wanted to explore the development of the new distilleries and see stable releases on the market. Then my interest in Irish whiskey was awakened with the release of the Fercullen single malt, then Clonakilty single pot still, and at that time several other distilleries had their own whiskey available.

The Dingle 10-year-old single malt was first released in 2025. It's triple-distilled and has been matured in a mix of bourbon (65%), port (30%) and Pedro Ximénez sherry (5%) casks. It's bottled at 46,5% ABV, has been non-chill filtered and has no added colouring.

This is a nice one from Dingle, highly recommended. I'm glad to see them expand their core offering. It's available at their own shop for €80, at Celtic whiskey shop, and Irish malts (to name a few).