News: Meath whiskey distillery saves century-old Spanish wine casks from rubbish heap [The Irish Examiner]
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“A Meath distillery has saved 100-year-old Spanish wine barrels to reuse them in Ireland maturing whiskey.
Almost 70 extremely rare Oloroso casks from Cordoba in Andalucía, southern Spain, have been shipped to Co Meath to be used potentially for another 100 years.
Boann Distillery, outside Drogheda, bought the casks when a bodega closed. They are now being used to mature whiskey after a century of Oloroso wine having seeped into the wood.”