Midleton Very Rare - Bottled 1989

INFORMATION

Midleton Very Rare. Bottled 1989. Irish Whiskey. 75cl. 40%.

A hard-to-find bottle of Midleton Very Rare released in 1989 in the early years of what has become Irish whiskey’s longest-running prestige bottling. The exact number of bottles of the 1989 release is unknown but what’s certain is that today it’s one of the scarcest vintages of Midleton Very Rare, with completist collectors scrambling for any bottles that come to market.

DISTILLERY:Midleton

DISTILLERY STATUS:Working

Bottle ABV:40%

Bottle SIZE:75cl / 750ml

BOTTLER:Distillery Bottling

SPIRIT TYPE:Ireland

LIMITED EDITION:yes

CASK TYPE:Blended Whisky

BOTTLING DATE::1989

Ireland’s original Midleton distillery opened in a former woollen mill just outside Cork city in 1825. Midleton’s owners the Murphy brothers founded the Cork Distilleries Company (CDC) in 1867; a century later with market conditions in potentially terminal decline, CDC merged with Jameson and Powers to form Irish Distillers. Soon afterwards, both Dublin distilleries were closed and all whiskey production was switched to a large new distillery at Midleton, which opened in 1975. 

Irish Distillers was bought by Pernod Ricard in 1988 and the new owners have invested hundreds of millions in Midleton in recent years. Today, Midleton distillery has a production capacity of over 70 million litres of pure alcohol per year, making both single pot still and grain whiskey for their Jameson, Midleton, Redbreast, Powers and Green Spot brands, as well as the legacy brand Paddy’s, which was sold to Sazerac in 2016. Further investment has been announced to make Midleton distillery carbon neutral by 2026.