Dingle Distillery Showcase — Belfast Whiskey Week 2021

Name: Belfast Whiskey Week 2026
Start: 2026-07-24
End: 2026-08-01
Location: Belfast

Filed: 29 Jul 2021
By: Belfast Whiskey Week
Read: 3 min
Format: Online Tasting
Ref: BWW/21/948

When the Wild Atlantic Way came to Belfast Whiskey Week 2021, it arrived in six careful measures — each one a window into what Dingle Distillery has quietly been building on the Kerry coast. Session 53 was a showcase in the truest sense: not a performance, but a patient, generous unpacking of a whiskey that has earned its reputation the hard way.

About This Event

This tasting includes 6 x 50ml Samples and will take place on the 29th @ 16:00.

This tasting comprises of:

Dingle Core Single Malt
Dingle Core Single Malt deconstruction: Bourbon component
Dingle Core Single Malt deconstruction: PX component
Dingle Core Single Malt at Cask strength
Single Malt Cabernet Finish
Single Pot Still Moscatel Finish

For those in the USA, Australia, Sweden, Europe, the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland, you will be able to save on delivery costs by having your package to sent to a localised depot for collection. You will be charged a small fee upon collection, but the cost will be much cheaper than having packs delivered to individual addresses. If you would like to avail of this option, please make a note in the Special Instructions box, and we will contact you at a later date to arrange this and refund your delivery charges.

Looking Back

There's a particular pleasure in tasting a whiskey alongside the people who understand it most, and Session 53 delivered exactly that. Held on the 29th of July 2021 at 4 o'clock in the afternoon — that golden hour when the day starts to ease — participants received six 50ml samples and the time to sit with them properly. This was the kind of tasting that rewards attention, and Dingle rewarded it generously.

The session was structured around Dingle's Core Single Malt, and the masterstroke was the deconstruction. Attendees were taken apart the blend's components — first the bourbon-cask element, then the PX sherry contribution — before experiencing the assembled whiskey whole. It's a teaching approach that shifts something fundamental in how you taste: suddenly the bourbon note isn't just a flavour, it's a conversation partner, and the PX's dried-fruit richness has a context and a counterpart. If you came in thinking you knew Irish single malt, you left knowing it differently.

The cask strength expression sharpened everything further — no water, no compromise, just the distillery's character at full voice. Salt, coast, something vegetal and clean that speaks of its tír on the western edge of Ireland. Dingle's triple-distilled spirit carries the duchas of the place it comes from, and at cask strength that sense of provenance is unmistakable. From there, the Cabernet Finish and the Moscatel Finish offered two entirely different kinds of departure: the Cabernet bringing dark fruit and tannic backbone, the Moscatel a honeyed, almost floral warmth that lingered long after the glass was empty.

Dingle has featured at Belfast Whiskey Week in several forms over the years — showcases, Q&As with Master Distiller Graham Coull, and a memorable whiskey lunch at the Morning Star — and each time they bring the same unhurried confidence. There's no bluster in how they present their whiskey, just the seanchas of the craft: the story told through the liquid itself. For those who also joined sessions like the Sexton Deconstruction Showcase or explored the northern Irish tradition through the Bushmills Causeway Collection MasterClass, Session 53 offered a compelling counterpoint — Kerry answering Ulster, Atlantic answering Antrim coast.

The online delivery model that year meant participants across Ireland, the UK, Europe, Australia, the USA, and Sweden could join in, with localised depot collection keeping costs manageable and the drams arriving safely. Whatever your postcode, by 4pm on the 29th of July, the distance between Belfast and Dingle felt very small indeed. Sláinte to that. If you'd like to explore more of what Dingle makes, you can browse their full collection here.

The Brand: Dingle Distillery

Triple-distilled single malt and pot still whiskey carrying the character of the Wild Atlantic Way — salt, coast, and something genuinely west of Ireland.