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Berghoff 10 Year Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon 1993 / Stitzel-Weller

Lot: 5050519

Berghoff 10 Year Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon 1993 / Stitzel-Weller

Winning Bid: £2,200
(Reserve has been met) This lot currently has: 26 bids

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Old Fitzgerald (Stitzel-Weller)
Age: 
10 year old
Vintage: 
N/A
Region: 
Kentucky, USA
Bottler: 
Old Commonwealth
Cask Type: 
N/A
Bottled Strength: 
53.5%
Bottle Size: 
75cl
Distillery Status: 
Closed
product Details

Berghoff 10 Year Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon 1993 / Stitzel-Weller

This is a 10 year old bourbon produced for Berghoff, a famous German restaurant in Chicago, Illinois. The diner has a long-association with Stitzel-Weller distillery, and they bottled a number of these for it over the years. This 1993 bottling sees the mantle picked up by Julian Van Winkle III, who produced this at Old Commonwealth using bourbon distilled at Stitzel-Weller by Somerset Imports.

The Stitzel-Weller company was officially established in 1933 at the repeal of National Prohibition in the US. It was the result of a merger between the A. Ph. Stitzel distillery and its biggest customer, W.L. Weller & Sons. The Stitzel-Weller distillery opened on Kentucky Derby day in 1935, and quickly developed a reputation for its high quality wheated bourbon, and its main brands were Old Weller, Old Fitzgerald and Cabin Still. The original ownership was shared between Alex T. Farnsley, Arthur Philip Stitzel and Julian Van Winkle. The former passed-away in 1941 and 1947, respectively, leaving the Van Winkle family as the sole heirs to the business. 'Pappy' died in 1965, having handed the reigns to his son, Julian II the year prior, who ran it until 1972 when the board of directors forced him to sell it to the Norton-Simon subsidiary, Somerset Imports. When they were bought over by the American arm of Scottish distillers, DCL, its subsequent iteration invested heavily in bourbon. So much so in fact, that their newly rebuilt Bernheim distillery had such capacity that Stitzel-Weller was rendered surplus to requirements. It was shut down in 1992. Still part of the Diageo portfolio, it has never re-opened and instead now houses the visitor experience for their Bulleit brand.

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