Wicklow Very Old Dublin Whisky - John Lukey & Sons Ltd - Circa 1940s

Natural wear & tear.

Wicklow Very Old Dublin Whisky. John Lukey & Sons Ltd. Whisky Bonders Dover & Folkestone. Bottled circa 1940s. No size or strength stated although equal to full size bottle. 2 piece moulded glass bottle. Driven cork with branded foil seal. No box.

A wonderful old bottle of Wicklow Very Old Dublin Whisky, a pure malt Irish whiskey bottled for English merchants John Lukey, who were prominent hoteliers as well as whisky blenders, bonders and bottlers based in Folkestone & Dover. We estimate that this bottle dates from around WWII.

As this is an independently bottled Irish malt whisky from an undisclosed distillery that was released around 80 years ago, there’s not much information available on this one, unfortunately. Suffice to say that John Lukey & Sons were established, well-regarded bonders and blenders who also bottled an award-winning blended Scotch whisky. 

Interestingly, Alfred Barnard, on his visit to Dublin’s Phoenix Park distillery in 1886, remarked “the make is called Dublin Whisky and the annual output is 350,000 gallons, which find a market chiefly in London and the Colonies”, though of course other distilleries including Jameson and Marrowbone Lane were also referred to as Dublin Whisky/Whiskey.

This beautiful old bottle of Lukey’s Very Old Dublin Whisky is an absolute treasure of Irish whiskey.