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Canadian O.F.C. 1982 8 Year Old

Lot: 6163641

Canadian O.F.C. 1982 8 Year Old

Winning Bid: £19

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Schenley Valleyfield
Age: 
8 Year Old
Vintage: 
1982
Region: 
Canada
Bottler: 
Official
Bottled Strength: 
43.4%
Bottle Size: 
75cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
product Details

Canadian O.F.C. 1982 8 Year Old

Not to be confused with Kentucky's OFC (the distillery now known as Buffalo Trace), this is a Canadian blended whisky with a tax seal stating it's youngest constituent spirit was distilled in 1985.

The blend is 8 years old and was produced by the Schenley company. Gibson's was a trading name that they acquired at the end of Prohibition from a Pennsylvanian rye distillery. They revived the Gibson's name for use on their Canadian blended whiskies in 1972.

Schenley was organised in 1920 by Louis Rosenstiel as the Cincinnati Distributing Corp. It was one of just six companies granted a license by the US government to bottle medicinal whiskey, alongside Brown-Forman, Frankfort Distilleries, the A. Ph. Stitzel distillery, the American Medicinal Spirits Company, and James Thompson & Brother. In the same year, Rosenstiel acquired the Joseph S. Finch distillery in Pennsylvania, its stock and its Golden Wedding brand, which would go onto become one of the flagship labels of Schenley in the 20th century. In 1922, Rosenstiel met Winston Churchill while holidaying in France, and the future British Prime Minister advised him to begin preparing for the eventuality that the unpopular Prohibition act would be repealed. Rosenstiel then spent the next decade accruing assets in the whiskey industry and by the time his foresight finally paid off in 1933, Schenley were the owners of numerous distilleries including George T. Stagg, James E. Pepper, and the Squibb distillery in Indiana. They added the famous Bernheim distillery to the portfolio in 1937, and the year prior made their first play in the Scotch market by becoming the US distributor for John Dewar & Sons. Rosenstiel's spirits empire dominated much of the market share of American whiskey for the next forty years through brands like I.W. Harper and Cream of Kentucky, before he sold his controlling stake to the Glen Alden company in 1968. He passed away eight years later, and in 1987, Schenley was bought over by United Distillers, newly formed through a merger of the Distillers Company Ltd (DCL) and Arthur Bell & Sons after both were acquired by Guinness that year.

This was distilled at the Schenley's Canadian distillery in Valleyfield, Quebec. The site was built in 1945 and is still in operation today, under the ownership of Diageo.

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