Distillery
Writer's Tears
Bernard and Rosemary Walsh founded their family whisky business in 1999. Years later, they built a working distillery on the Royal Oak estate in County Carlow, Ireland. Writer's Tears is their tribute to a golden era when Irish pot still whisky led the world. That 19th-century style blended pot still and malt whisky in copper stills, a combination once called the 'champagne of Irish whisky.' Writers of the day, among them James Joyce, W.B. Yeats and Oscar Wilde, were known to enjoy a glass in their local pubs. The Walshes revived the old recipe almost a century after it had nearly disappeared. The brand's name comes from an old legend about those literary drinkers. Legend says they loved this pot still and malt whisky so much that when they cried, their tears were made of whisky. Writer's Tears keeps that story alive today, one dram at a time.
