LOT ID: 0824-320
End Date : Oct 16 2024 08:10 PM
John Jameson & Son's Redbreast 12 Year Old. Bottled by W&AGilbey's. Irish Liqueur Whiskey. Bottled 1950s. Stopper cork with foil seal. No size stated although equal to half bottle. No strength stated. No box.
A fantastic half-bottle of Jameson’s Redbreast 12-year-old Irish whiskey - a lovely old bottle from the 1950s. There’s no size or strength stated on the label, but it’s approximately equivalent to a modern half-bottle size (37.5cl / 375ml). This bottle dates from when the Redbreast brand was exclusive to W & A Gilbey (better known nowadays for their gin) so it will contain 100% pot still whiskey from Jameson’s original Bow Street Distillery in Dublin, and is one of the most exciting bottles of Irish whiskey we’ve had this year.
FILLING LEVEL
High Shoulder
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| £360.00 | 16th October 2024 | 19:51 | |
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