{"product_id":"waterford-heritage-hunter-arcadian-barley-irish-single-malt-750ml-2g78b4","title":"Waterford Heritage Hunter Arcadian Barley Irish Single Malt (750ml)","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArcadian Barley, from our secret garden of delights, explores the natural flavours, intensity \u0026amp; honesty of the old ways. We have had to go to extraordinary lengths to eschew the quotidian varieties\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e —\u003c\/span\u003e those modern yield enhanced versions that distillers are obliged to use, in order to celebrate the lost\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eflavours – flavours that evolved over centuries in harmony with Ireland’s terroirs. Indeed, to rediscover the flavour of iconic Irish barley we must venture back in time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHunter, named after pioneering plant breeder Dr Herbert Hunter, was introduced in 1959 and\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003ewas for almost two decades noted for its distinctive flavour. We now reintroduce this game-changing barley to a new era of single malt connoisseurs. Vanished from the Irish landscape since the late 1970s, superceded by more economically rewarding crosses, all that remained of Hunter was a 50 gram bag in the seed bank of the Irish Department of Agriculture, Food \u0026amp; the Marine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePlanted in greenhouse grow bags, this 50 grams grew to four kilograms, and the cycle went again and again over two years, until there was enough for\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eten acres at our partner Minch Malt’s test site in Athy. Test successful, Hunter was sown on a commercial scale on the lime-rich Elton series \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eterroir\u003c\/em\u003e of Donoughmore, yielding 25.5 tonnes of malting barley — enough to fill 50 casks. It is from that first pioneering distillation that this whisky has been drawn.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Prestige Beverage (Capitol Beverage Group)","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":44448972046449,"sku":"WaterfordHunter","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/5407\/6785\/files\/bnkw83j94m5x_dbfbe2f3-775f-48c6-86a1-808e971cdff8.jpg?v=1788466573","url":"https:\/\/cellar-us.com\/products\/waterford-heritage-hunter-arcadian-barley-irish-single-malt-750ml-2g78b4","provider":"CELLAR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}