Dunville's 10y/o PX Finish Irish Single Malt Whiskey 46%ABV 30ml

Echlinville Distillery has resurrected the two historic brands of Northern Ireland - Dunvilles and Old Comber which were once world famous. These bottles have been mostly independently bottled whiskies using single malt from other Irish distilleries like Cooley that have been matured at Echlinville. After Old Comber Distillery was dismantled in 1956 the old stills were eventually refurbished and used at Cooley distillery so it is apt that current Old Comber has whiskey distilled in the same stills. Eventually Echlinville will release its own core range of whiskies but currently the Dunvilles releases have been wildly successful and after 13 years Echlinville has only released one whiskey branded under their own name.

Dunville's of Belfast has an interesting history and was historically for a short time the Worlds most popular whisky selling more cases than any other Irish or Scottish distillery at the beginning of the 20th century. Unlike many other Irish distilleries that collapsed due to financial issues caused by Prohibition, this was not the cause of Dunvilles demise. Dunvilles was hit by a series of tragedies with multiple male members of the Dunville family and many of the distillery workers falling in battle together in the First World War. One of the only surviving members of the family dropped dead with a heart condition in his forties soon after the war and the last male heir caused a scandal getting a local girl pregnant and eloping to Australia. He was tracked down to a rural NSW sheep station and persuaded to return to Ireland only to get another different local girl pregnant and flee to Canada never to return. Multiple tragedies led to the end of the brand despite its financial success and the Jamesons in particular took advantage to retake the crown as the biggest selling Whiskey which it had held for most of the 19th century.