Paddy

Paddy

Cork Distilleries Company was founded in 1877 and had a number of distilling sites in the Cork city area. The distillery used the finest local grown barley and pure water from tributaries of the river Lee to distill world class whiskeys. The walls of the distillery still stand in Cork today in the area known as North Mall.

In 1882, a young Patrick J. O’Flaherty joined the Cork Distilleries Company as a traveller. Paddy covered an area stretching from Youghal to Mallow selling the rather unwieldy named ‘Cork Distilleries Company Old Irish Whiskey’. As Paddy travelled from pub to pub by train and jaunting car, he always drew a crowd, as it was well known that this most generous of fellows would always stand you a round. This was an ingenious way of ensuring everyone got a taste for the Cork Distillery Company’s Old Irish whiskey and put pressure on the publicans to keep it in stock. When publicans ran low on stocks, they wrote to the distillery asking for another case of ‘Paddy Flaherty’s whiskey’.

The name stuck so much so that in 1912, Cork Distilleries officially changed the name of the whiskey to Paddy Irish Whiskey.


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Blended Irish Whiskey, 40%vol
One of the softest of Ireland's whiskeys, nutty maltiness, woodland fragrances and spice, honey and vanilla

13.50 *
1 l = 19.29 €

Still in stock
can be shipped within 1 bis 2 days

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Spirits and syrups coloured if not declared otherwise. All wines and sparkling wines contain sulphites.