LOT ID: 0724-382
End Date : Sep 11 2024 08:21 PM
John Jameson & Son's Redbreast 10 Year Old. Bottled by Gilbey's. Irish Liqueur Whiskey. Bottled 1960s. 26 2/3 Fl Ozs. 70 Proof. No box.
An old 1960s bottle of Redbreast, which was bottled exclusively by the wine merchants W & A Gilbey for over a century until the late 1980s. An established importer with premises in London and Dublin, Gilbey’s would send their sherry casks to Jameson’s Bow Street distillery to be filled with single pot still whiskey. The operation was massive - by the turn of the 20th century, Gilbey’s reserve stock of maturing whiskey was over 2.5m litres. Gilbey’s bottled this sherried Jameson whiskey as Redbreast, usually at 10 or 12 years old - these old bottles containing Bow St spirit are now highly desirable.
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Dublin’s Bow Street distillery was built in 1780 by the Steins, one of Scotland’s greatest distilling families. John Jameson was a Scottish lawyer whose wife Margaret Haig was part of the Haig-Stein whisky dynasty, and during the 1780s the Jameson family moved to Dublin to help manage the Stein’s Bow Street Distillery. The Jamesons bought the distillery from the Steins in 1805 and renamed the business John Jameson & Son in 1810.
John Jameson & Son was registered as a limited company around the turn of the 20th century, and joined with John Power & Sons and the Cork Distillery Company to form Irish Distillers Ltd in 1966. The Bow St distillery was closed in the 1970s and production of Jameson was moved to the new Midleton distillery in Cork. Irish Distillers was purchased in 1988 by Pernod Ricard, who concentrated their investment in Jameson and have overseen a dramatic upturn in the brand’s fortunes ever since.
| BID | DATE | TIME | |
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| £460.00 | 11th September 2024 | 20:11 | |
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