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Bottle Details
John Jameson 15 Year Old 1970s
The Jameson brand is named for its founder, John Jameson, a Scot who was married into the famous Haig distilling dynasty. Jameson was one of the original Dublin whiskies, and is synonymous with its spiritual ex-home, the Bow Street distillery in Ireland's capital. The Irish Wars of Independence, subsequent trade war with Britain, and US Prohibition, all hit the whiskey industry there hard in the mid-20th century. The solution was the creation of the Irish Distillers group, a merger between Jameson, Powers and Cork Distillers in 1966. Now a Pernod-Ricard subsidiary, Irish Distillers continue to produce Jameson at the New Midleton distillery in Cork, built in 1975. Today it is best-selling Irish whiskey in the world.
These first Jameson blended Irish whiskies represented a significant change in Irish distilling at the time, one that likely saved the industry. When the Jameson, Powers and Cork Distillers companies had banded together as Irish Distillers in an effort to pool resources and capitalise on what was about to become a hugely expanded export market, Jameson was pushed as the poster boy and in an effort to appeal to international tastes at the time. The old Irish pot still whiskeys would henceforth become the modern blends that we recognise today.
This particular 15 year old blend is a marriage of both of Irelands great closed distilleries, Jameson's Bow Street, and Powers' John's Lane. The pure pot still content is from Bow Street, and the grain, since Jameson's did not have a patent still, came from John's Lane. There is some serious Irish distilling history captured in this bottle.
1970s import by Soffiantino for the Italian market.
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