Ireland's Slane Distillery Coming of Age

It's been almost three years since Brown-Forman and the Conyngham
family fired up the stills at Slane Distillery on the family's
Slane Castle estate near Dublin. While their flagship Slane Irish
Whiskey has been made using sourced whiskies since its debut in
2017, the day is coming closer when some of the distillery's own
maturing whiskey will be blended into the final product. We'll
check in with Alex Conyngham on the distillery's progress in a
summer that would have normally been filled with visitors to the
distillery and the estate, but it's become clear that 2020 is no
normal year. In the news, the coronavirus pandemic continues to
plague small-scale distillers in the U.S. with estimates of lost
sales now reaching $700 million this year, and the past week also
saw more cancellations of whisky events worldwide through the end
of 2020. We'll also check the court dockets for updates on
several cases involving the whisky industry, and there's a bright
spot in the form of new whiskies coming from around the world.