Master distiller Barry Crockett has Distillers’ whiskey named after him

MIDLETON master distiller Barry Crockett has been given the rare honour of having a bottle of whiskey named after him.

Newly launched by Irish Distillers Pernod Ricard as part of a new ‘Single Pot Still’ range of a connoisseur whiskeys, the Midleton Barry Crockett Legacy is a finely tuned modern homage to the Cork-based distillery’s now globally celebrated whiskeys, the most famous of which is Jameson.

Next month La Maison du Whiskey in Paris is devoting a week to the new single pot range, which includes Redbreast, Green Spot, the Powers John’s Lane Release and the Midleton Barry Crockett Legacy.