Midleton Very Rare 2025 70cl Whisky

A landmark release from Midleton, the 2025 vintage sees master distiller Kevin O’Gorman and his team dial things up a notch. For the first time in the collection’s history, six different distillate styles have been brought together – a nod to the generations of craftspeople who’ve shaped Midleton’s legacy. As ever, the whiskeys were drawn from the historic A2 Warehouse, where only the best barrels mature under stone and silence since the 1860s.

Uniquely, O’Gorman hand-picked not one but three grain whiskey styles – including a 22-year-old batch made from a barley/malted barley mash bill and a rare 21-year-old grain. Both spent their long lives in refill American whiskey barrels, which gave the luscious sweetness and butterscotch of the distillates space to shine. That grain character is matched by a bold increase in pot still whiskey content, delivering serious depth and complexity.