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Bottle Details
Old W L Weller Special Reserve 90 Proof Half Pint 1970s / Stitzel-Weller
An old half pint bottling of the Old W.L. Weller Special Reserve.
At this point the Weller brand was still being produced at the famous Stitzel-Weller distillery. The whiskey was likely distilled in 1965, when the distillery was still being managed by the Van Winkle family, and the same year that legendary 'Pappy' died, leaving the business to his son, Julian II.
This was bottled in 1972, either just before or after the Van Winkle's were forced to sell the distillery and the brand to Somerset Imports.
Weller nowadays is produced by the Sazerac company, and was the driving motivation for Julian III to partner up with their Buffalo Trace distillery to produce new Van Winkle whiskey there too.
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