Sazerac Introduces Hawk’s Rock Distillery
Sazerac has announced the renaming of its recently-acquired Lough Gill Distillery to Hawk’s Rock Distillery.
Named after a prominent outcrop in the Ox Mountains that inspired Nobel Prize winning poet William Butler (W.B.) Yeats’ play, “At the Hawk’s Well,” Hawk’s Rock Distillery will continue to produce and age Irish Whiskey on the over 100-acre site located in County Sligo, Ireland. Since Sazerac acquired the distillery, the team has upgraded and tripled its warehouse capacity, expanded production, and is modernizing the distillery.
Leading the Hawk’s Rock distillation team as Master Blender is Helen Mulholland, the first female Master Blender in Irish Whiskey history, Chair of the Irish Whiskey Association, and a Whisky Hall of Fame inductee. She and her team have been entrusted with leading the creation and blending of Hawk’s Rock’s Irish whiskey brands, the first of which will debut in June 2025.
While Hawk’s Rock Distillery is closed to the public during renovations, Sazerac has received planning permission to develop a future visitor experience in Sligo.
Source: Sazerac.