Please note several imperfections to the box on this item as to be expected with an old bottling. Currently distilled by Heaven Hill, this brand was once under the ownership of the legendary Pappy Van Winkle, who bought it for the princely sum of $10,000 from Old Judge distillery at the close of prohibition in 1933.
The historic home of the brand became Van Winkle's Stitzel-Weller distillery. When his son was forced to sell it in 1972, it eventually passed into the hands of DCL in 1984, who's subsequent iteration, United Distillers initially invested heavily in bourbon. So much so in fact that their newly refurbished Bernheim distillery had such production capacity that Stitzel-Weller was shut down in 1992. Production of Old Fitzgerald from then-on was moved to the new distillery. When United Distillers became Diageo in 1997, the new parent company opted to divest in bourbon, selling both Bernheim and the Old Fitzgerald brand to Heaven Hill in 1999.