Tullamore Distillery, Tullamore, County Offaly, Ireland

Tullamore D.E.W. Original

William Grant & Sons (Tullamore D.E.W., est. 1829)

Tullamore D.E.W. went against the grain in the most dramatic way possible: it came back from the dead. When the old Tullamore distillery closed in 1954, the brand survived as a label without a home, its whiskey sourced from other distilleries for sixty years. Then in 2014, William Grant & Sons built a brand-new €35 million distillery in Tullamore — the first new greenfield distillery in Ireland in over a century — bringing whiskey-making back to the town whose name is literally on the bottle. The triple blend of pot still, malt, and grain — triple distilled and triple cask matured — delivers surprising complexity at a price point that makes it one of the best introductions to Irish whiskey on the market.