Wine: Looking into Ireland's spirit industry

In my last column of 2015 I was going to go focus on the wine highlights of the year but in fact there have been far more landmarks in the spirit world here in Ireland.

We now have 32 distilleries either up-and-running or due to open in the next year or two and the early adopters are starting to win awards and distribution deals.

Meanwhile the Midleton distillery is still producing some of the most exciting whiskey around — I love the new Powers releases for example.