{"id":91683,"date":"2014-12-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelstartblg.wpenginepowered.com\/jameson-distillery-tour-ireland\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T13:52:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:52:31","slug":"jameson-distillery-tour-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelstart.co.za\/blog\/jameson-distillery-tour-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"When In Ireland, Visit The Jameson Distillery"},"content":{"rendered":"

On a recent trip to the Emerald Isle, Russell from Travelstart falls in love with Jameson Irish Whisk(e)y and becomes a \u201cQualified Irish Whiskey Taster\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

A tour and tasting visit to the Jameson Distillery in Ireland is guaranteed to up your whiskey drinking street cred, and on a recent trip to one of the world\u2019s most respected drinking nations, I was lucky enough to experience the source of Ireland\u2019s smoothest export myself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Ireland and Northern Ireland \u2013 two separate nations with many likenesses to the untrained South African eye, however, under closer scrutiny, these two have a habit of catching unsuspecting visitors off guard with their varying visa regulations, signposts and currencies. I mean, if you\u2019re travelling on a South African passport, you\u2019ll need a visa to enter the north but not the south; miles guide you along the northern roads then switch and multiply to kilometres as the A routes of the north become the N routes of the south, and the Euro of the Republic of Ireland is only slightly less expensive for us South Africans than the Great British Pound of the nether regions. And I haven\u2019t even started on the accents! From the broadness of Belfast to the singsong Irish \u2018lilts\u2019 of Dublin<\/a> and beyond, it\u2019s easy to forget that these two bafflingly coupled nations share the same expanse of land. Despite their glaring differences which only become apparent on closer inspection, the one thing they do agree on is that Irish Whiskey is spelt with an \u2018e\u2019. So by the time I got to the Jameson Distillery in Midleton, County Cork, a 3 hour drive from Dublin, I was at least somewhat confident I would cause no offence in a surface discussion of whiskEy, and I would be able to hold my own among connoisseurs who\u2019d travelled from far flung corners of the globe to experience this monument to John Jameson and his liquid legacy.<\/p>\n

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