Five-star country house hotel Palé Hall in north Wales is pleased to announce its very first collaboration with award-winning Welsh distillery Penderyn.
Holder of a Green Michelin star since 2021, Palé Hall is committed to working with local Welsh suppliers and producers, and the team wanted to create a bespoke product for Palé Hall that was produced in the Welsh countryside, of a quality and ethos aligned with the hotel, and one that guests from all over the would be able to enjoy.
Penderyn Distillery – the home of Welsh Whisky and producers of award-winning single malt whiskies in the foothills of the Brecon Beacons – was approached by Palé Hall to create a limited-edition bespoke whisky for its guests.
Head distiller Aista Phillips and Palé Hall’s sommelier Garry Clark worked together to produce a whisky sample that had been matured in a Fino Sherry blood tub cask, made exclusively in a cooperage in Portugal. The blood tub is approximately 50 litres and was filled in 2021 with three-year-old whisky distilled at Penderyn’s Brecon Beacons distillery that had previously been matured in ex-Buffalo trace casks.
The result is a whisky with aromas of warm spiced apples, hints of citrus peels and spiced honey finish. This limited edition bottling of 50 bottles will be available exclusively at Palé Hall, on the bar and available for guests to purchase as a unique reminder of their stay at Pale Hall and the beautiful Welsh countryside.
Palé Hall sommelier Garry Clark said: “We are pleased to be working with a wonderful Welsh producer of exceptional whiskies and see this as the first step in a partnership. Penderyn have been producing whiskies at their primary distillery in the heart of the Brecon Beacons/Bannau Brycheiniog since their foundation in 2000 as the Welsh Whisky company, a name taken from one of the original Welsh distilleries at Frongoch, near Bala. This is where our connection with Penderyn starts, as their 6th bottling in their “Icons of Wales” series – the Royal Welsh whisky, commemorates the Frongoch distillery and its visit by Queen Victoria in 1889. Queen Victoria visited the region while she was staying at Palé Hall, as guest of the Robertson family who build it in 1871.
Palé Hall’s owners Alan and Angela Harper have always strived to support businesses in the Welsh community, and this project continues that ethos. We hope it marks the beginning of several more exclusive bottlings for the hotel and we look forward to seeing the whisky produced at Penderyn’s newest distillery in Llandudno once it reaches maturity.”
