The J.J. Corry story is two tales in one: The modern day Irish Whiskey bonder founded by Louise McGuane who is reviving the art of Irish Whiskey bonding and then there is the difficult history of Irish Whiskey itself combined with the legacy of the J.J. Corry brand, whose namesake in the late 1800s was a skilled trader of teas, wines and most importantly, an artful spirits bonder who traded in the Atlantic coastal town of Kilrush.
Of all the historic whiskey producing countries, Ireland is the only one to have seen a near total collapse of their whiskey industry. In the 19th and 20th Centuries, hundreds of distilleries dotted the Emerald Island. A parallel industry and craft also existed as most distillers did not age and bottle their own spirits. The ageing and bottling was the domain of the whiskey bonder, who would carefully and laboriously select, age and blend the whiskey themselves in their own casks based on their own taste and sensibilities. As the distilleries disappeared almost entirely by the 1930s, so did the craft of Irish Whiskey bonding.
Today, Irish distilling is making a comeback, with smaller, independent distilleries cropping back up all over Ireland. Inspired by her country’s nearly lost treasure and the legacy of J.J. Corry, the renown old whiskey bonder from her homeland in County Clare, Louise has set about building a collection of some of the rarest Whiskey in the world, carefully acquiring new make and mature whiskey from independent distilleries. This has allowed Louise and her passionate team to develop her deep library of Irish Whiskey flavors; unique batches of whiskey paired with unique casks that she has hand selected from across the globe. She organizes her cask library by flavor profiles and continues to sort and age them in the rackhouse on her farm which has been purpose built to create the ideal environment for ageing Irish Whiskey. Louise’s already exceptional and unique Irish Whiskeys are a taste experience and a bit of history-making in progress.
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