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The Ardara Distillery
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Front view of a clear glass bottle filled with amber-colored Ardara Single Malt Irish Whiskey. The black label features a teal dragonfly logo and white text. The bottle is set on a rustic wooden table with a warm, out-of-focus background.
Single Malt Irish Wiskey

Ardara Single Malt revives
Donegal’s bold whiskey tradition.

Crafted with an “all grains in” process and matured in wooden soleras, it captures the wild balance of smoke and sweetness unique to Donegal.

Heavily Peated Whiskey

It’s about revival

This isn’t about nostalgia, it’s about revival: reclaiming the rich, sweet smoky, textured soul of true Donegal whiskey.

A whiskey of unapologetic character, born from Donegal’s smoky soul and bold tradition. Ardara embodies the craft of triple distillation, rich in peat and spirit, made the old way with a future in mind.

€ 90,00

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Made with local barley and peated to 55ppm, Ardara is triple distilled using the all grain in method. Every drop carries the legacy of Donegal’s distillers, bold, honest and unmistakably from the edge.

A circular Ardara Single Malt Irish Whiskey coaster sits on a gray surface, partially in shadow. A bright, golden light refraction from a nearby glass vessel dances across the top of the frame and spills onto the coaster, highlighting its dark texture and the A bottle of Ardara Single Malt Irish Whiskey (2025 Edition) stands on a wooden surface against a black background. To the right of the bottle, large white text features the Ardara logo with a dragonfly icon, followed by the descriptors:

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Always Heavily Peated

Donegal was renowned for its love of smoky spirits. It was once the Islay of Ireland and will now thanks to Ardara be so again

All Grain In

Respecting the unfiltered ways of our illicit forebears – keeping the grain in all the way to the wash still means we capture all the smoky character of the grain all the time

Triple Distilled

Ardara Single Malt Irish Whiskey’s signature softness comes from our gentle triple distilling – creating an unusually approachable profoundly peated single malt

Nose

A sweet, fruity, nutty single malt character, a hint of waxiness wrapped in a sweet pipe smoke blanket.

Taste

Hot beignets, intensely sweet, poached pears, roasted coconut, almond, leather, rolled tobacco, sweet smoke, camp fire, a morning after ashiness and a sweet baked apple finish.

ABV

46%

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From Experience to Glass
  • Amazing distillery experience. Got to see the their own processes and standards, and learn about the special local ingredients that they solely use in their recipes. Offer some larger bottle options to go as well as smaller sampler options.
    Josh L.
  • Offer some larger bottle options to go as well as smaller sampler options. Amazing distillery experience. Got to see the their own processes and standards, and learn about the special local ingredients.
    L. Josh
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