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Bold, smooth, and steeped in heritage, this modern Australian Poitín bridges centuries of tradition with contemporary craft distilling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-section-id=\"1dlh0iz\" data-start=\"787\" data-end=\"805\"\u003eWhat is Poitín?\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"807\" data-end=\"1129\"\u003eOften called the ancestor of whiskey and all distilled spirits, \u003cspan class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"whitespace-normal\"\u003ePoitín\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e dates back to 6th-century Ireland, where Irish monks first distilled “uisce beatha” (“water of life”). 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