John Cashman is the first legal whiskey maker from Co Wicklow. He makes the Fercullen 15 year old single grain whiskey on the Powerscourt estate and that’s now a recent award winner of the prestigious Worlds Best Grain category. But with Donald Trump slapping tariffs on all European imports and threats out there to hike that up to 200%, many in the whiskey sector are pausing or reducing output all over Ireland. John Cashman the Head of Brand at the Powerscourt distillery and a recent whiskey Hall of Fame inductee spoke to Joe this morning all about this business.

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