She took a little time off and spent it back home in Ireland. She knew she was no longer able to leap from country to country every three years or travel 80% of the time on business, and so she decided to walk away from her global corporate career. In those twenty years she worked with and learned from some of the best in multinational drinks companies such as Diageo, Pernod Ricard and Moet Hennessy.Īfter marrying her London based husband in 2012 she was soon faced with a tough decision. She lived and worked in New York, Paris, London and Singapore. Her subsequent career in the drinks industry took her all over the world. Louise McGuane left her home on the west of Ireland twenty years ago, with the aim to see the world. We hand rack all of our casks on the bilge, which means on their sides, to give our spirit the benefits of extra contact with both heads of the barrel allowing for deeper flavour extraction from the wood.Ī Drinks Industry Veteran But a Farmer's Daughter at Heart It is small in scale, ensuring that the sleeping whiskey benefits from the wild fluctuations in barometric pressure and temperature we have in West Clare’s rugged landscape along the Wild Atlantic Way. This helps to naturally maintain humidity levels within the Rackhouse. The floor is nothing but clay earth with a gravel screed. It has a southerly facing aspect and windows ensuring that the temperature allows for continuous maturation. It is styled after a traditional Dunnage house but also takes inspiration from the maturation houses of Kentucky and France. Our Bonded Rackhouse is the only one of its kind in Ireland. It is our aim to make expressions that showcase the best of Irish Whiskey, old and new. Our unparalleled library of Irish Whiskey flavours rests in a purpose-built Bonded Rackhouse on the McGuane Farm in Cooraclare, right along the Wild Atlantic Way.Īs Bonders, we are building a library of flavours by sourcing Irish Whiskey from distilleries across the island of Ireland.
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