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Tullamore Dew 1945 - 1989. 44 Year Old. Willie Napier. One of 114 bottles. Pure Pot Still Irish Whisky. 750ml. 40%. In wooden presentation box with 2 glasses.
A fascinating old bottle from one of Ireland’s most famous lost distilleries: The original Tullamore distillery in Co. Offaly, sometimes known as the Daly distillery, which closed in 1954. This cask of Tullamore was purchased in 1945 by Willie Napier of the Central Bar in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, and was stored in bond until 1989, when it was finally bottled and released as a 44-year-old, yielding just 114 bottles.
The original Tullamore distillery was opened in 1829 by Michael Molloy in the town of the same name in Ireland’s Co. Offaly. After Molloy’s death the business passed in the 1850s to his nephew Bernard Daly, who hired a 15-year-old Daniel E. Williams in the 1860s as a distillery worker. The talented Williams was to become Tullamore’s manager by the age of 25 and later bought the distillery - it is his initials that give Tullamore D.E.W. its name.
Tullamore distillery closed in 1954 and the Tullamore D.E.W. brand was sold in the 1960s to John Powers, becoming part of Irish Distillers in 1966. Production moved to Midleton distillery in the 1970s, before the Tullamore brand was sold to C&C Group in the 1990s and then to William Grant & Sons in 2010. Unhappy with sourcing all their whiskey from rivals, in 2014 Grant’s built a new distillery in Tullamore to provide for their malt and pot still whiskey needs, adding a grain distillery in 2017.
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