Waterford Distillery Launches Flagship Biodynamic Whisky: Biodynamic: Cuvée Luna

WATERFORD DISTILLERY LAUNCHES FLAGSHIP BIODYNAMIC WHISKY: BIODYNAMIC: CUVÉE LUNA

• Waterford Distillery has launched its flagship biodynamic whisky: Biodynamic: Cuvée Luna

• The Biodynamic: Cuvée Luna is Waterford Whisky’s new bottling in their core range of Cuvée Concepts

• Waterford Distillery is the world’s largest producer of organic and biodynamic whiskies

5th September 2024: Waterford Distillery, the world’s largest producer of organic and biodynamic whiskies, has launched its new flagship cuvée bottling to its core collection of single malts – Biodynamic: Cuvée Luna.

Certified by Demeter and the Organic Trust, Biodynamic: Cuvée Luna – available to purchase worldwide from today – is made from 100% Irish barley grown using regenerative biodynamic farming methods, widely used by many of the world’s legendary winemakers.

The principles of biodynamic farming were first introduced 100 years ago in direct response to the growth of chemical applications after World War One. Today, such practices are more commonly recognised as “uber organic” and supercharged regenerative agriculture.

Waterford Distillery has embraced the unique biodynamic practices, which seek to create a vibrant living soil and barley crop by treating the farm as a self-contained living eco-system, with the application of homemade organic preparations that follow the ancient lunar calendar.

Working with three biodynamic Irish farmers – Trevor Harris, John McDonnell and Alan Mooney – Waterford Distillery bottled the world’s first biodynamic whisky in 2021 as part of its Arcadian Farm Origin series, and has since increased its intake to six biodynamic growers in total.

This new radical cuvée is an assemblage of multiple biodynamic harvests for even greater complexity. It was matured in a mixture of 37% First-fill US Oak, 17% Virgin US Oak, 25% Premium French Oak and 21% Vin Doux Naturel casks for harmony and balance.

Building on the distillery’s trademark artisanal bakery aromas, the whisky has flavours of green apple, hay, malted biscuits, peaches and breadcrust complimented with hints of lemon curd, breakfast cereals, herbal tea, porridge, cream and spice giving the whisky a long, creamy and gently-spiced finish.

Mark Reynier, CEO and Founder of Waterford Distillery, said: “Controversial to some, and the ultimate in regenerative farming to others, many of the world’s greatest winemakers and award-winning wines follow biodynamic methods to produce the most expressive and vibrant natural flavours possible.

“Whisky has become an industrially manufactured product, propped up with additives and finishes. Barley is one of the most flavoursome cereal grains and over time, this inherent flavour has been compromised as distilleries prioritise yield. So, we go back to the beginning – not just whisky how it used to be, but how farming used to be, and that means taking every grain of biodynamic barley we can get our hands on.”

As with every Waterford Distillery release, a unique TÉIREOIR CODE on each bottle provides unprecedented validation and verification of its individual journey from barley to bottle – harvested, stored, malted, distilled and matured. Every meaningful detail of the whisky is offered for full transparency.

Biodynamic Cuvée: Luna represents the apogee of Waterford Distillery’s investigation of regenerative single malt, making it the distillery’s most radical whisky to date.

Biodynamic: Cuvée Luna is available to purchase now from waterfordwhisky.com, Master of Malt and Whisky Exchange as a permanent listing, priced at approx. €85-95/$120/£89.95.

About Waterford Whisky  

Waterford Whisky produces the most naturally flavoursome single malts.

It is the world’s largest producer of organic and biodynamic whiskies.

It is agricultural produce, not a manufactured product. Unashamedly influenced by the world's greatest winemakers, Waterford Whisky obsessively brings the same intellectual drive, methodology and rigour to barley – the very source of malt whisky’s complex flavour.

Extolling a hundred exclusive farms of Irish-grown barley, the distillery searches for natural flavours via three paths: its Single Farm Origins pursue the individualism of terroir-derived flavour; its Arcadian Farm Origins express the intensity of flavour from alternative philosophies and long-forgotten varieties; whilst its Cuvée Concepts revel in the ultimate complexity, where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.