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NameKnappogue Castle 1951
Owner1Castle Brands
Distillery2B. Daly
TypePure Pot Still
Age36
PeatedNo
ABV340%

Notes

Knappogue Castle 1951 is a pure pot-still whiskey that was distilled in 1951 and then aged for 36 years in sherry casks. Only 300 bottles are made available for sale each year.

In the 1960s, Mark Edwin Andrews, an American with strong ties to Ireland, began buying casks of fine pot still whiskey from the top distilleries in Ireland. He aged them and bottled them under the Knappogue Castle label, named after the castle in Ireland that he owned. Knappogue Castle 1951 is the last of his whiskey that remains available.

Mr Andrews' son, Mark Andrews, launched a new Knappogue Castle whiskey in 1998.

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