PORTMAGEE 9 is the whiskey that started the Portmagee brand in 2018 as the first ever cask of Portmagee whiskey blended, finished and bottled.

Portmagee 9 is a blend of nine year old single grain whiskey and thirteen year old single malt whiskey which is single cask married and finished in a Barbados Rum cask. These casks are similar to the rum casks that Captain Magee the 1700’s Jacobean smuggler who founded Portmagee, would have smuggled into Portmagee between 1691 and 1727. Once emptied in Portmagee harbour, these same casks would have been used to smuggle Portmagee made spirits such as Poitín and whiskey back out of Ireland for delivery to France, Spain and Portugal.