Paddy Cooney (left), with Peter Cooney, Pat Cooney, founder, James Cooney and Sally Anne Cooney at the family-run Boann Distillery, alongside Max the dog, celebrating success at the 2022 World Whiskies Awards in London.

High spirits as Boann Distillery wins fourth 'World's Best' award

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Boann Distillery has won the world’s best single grain whiskey at a prestigious ceremony in London. The Drogheda drinks firm run by the Cooney family from Kilmessan clinched the top prize for its Whistler Mosaic Marsala Cask last month.

It is the company’s fourth international gong in the World Whiskies Awards since 2019 and it was also nominated for the world’s best blended malt for 'The Good, The Bad and The Smoky'.

Both spirits form part of the distillery’s flagship Whistler range. At the WWA last year, Boann won the world’s Best New Make 2021 and world’s best honey for the Whistler Irish Honey, in addition to the world’s best cream for Merrys Irish Cream Liqueur in 2019.

The Meath distillery blazed a trail to the finals in London after coming through the first-round of blind tastings, in which it scooped 11 prizes - Gold for its Single Pot Still 'New Make Spirit Naoi' and three silvers for its Oloroso Sherry Cask Finish, Single Pot Still "New Make Spirit Ceathair' and Single Pot Still 'New Make Spirit Deich'.

It also clinched a host of bronze awards in the competition, organised by Whisky Magazine.

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