Waterford Heritage Hunter: authentic Irish whiskey from ancient varieties

Heritage Hunter is a whiskey produced by the Waterford distillery made from an ancient variety of barley that has disappeared from the world of Irish distilled spirits production since the late 1970s. This precious barley, called Hunter, had in fact a rather low yield and was quickly replaced by significantly more productive species.

The Waterford distillery, a young Irish reality, wanted to recover this ancient grain to reintroduce an intense and authentic Irish single malt whiskey, an expression of the Elton terroir of Donoughmore.

A unique distillate made from grains grown under a totally sustainable system. Waterford, in fact, works with more than 100 small farmers in the southeast of Ireland, who pay extreme attention to the stages of barley processing and enhance the unique characteristics of each terroir.