Pappy Van Winkle

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Julian "Pappy" Van Winkle (born March 22, 1874 in Danville , Boyle County , Kentucky , USA ; † February 16, 1965 in Louisville , Jefferson County , Kentucky, USA) was a businessman from the USA. Van Winkle owned the Stitzel-Weller Distillery for several decades , which produced several influential whiskeys. His name has been known since around 2010 due to the boom of the Pappy Van Winkle's Family Reserve named after him , which is sold by his grandson Julian Van Winkle III.

Life

Van Winkle was born in Kentucky in 1874, the son of a lawyer. Van Winkle attended Center College in Danville before he worked as a sales representative for the whiskey blender William Larue Weller from 1893 , after which he had given his business to his sons in 1896, he worked for them. Van Winkle visited bars and grocery stores for Weller, advertised the products and took orders. Van Winkle made a career in the company, temporarily working as an executive in the company headquarters, and from 1915 he took over the entire business with another salesman. Van Winkle became President of WL Weller & Sons.

After Prohibition went into effect, Van Winkle consolidated the business. He bought the A. Ph. Stitzel Distillery from which Weller obtained a large part of his whiskey, and he managed to get hold of one of the few licenses with which he was allowed to sell medicinal whiskey at the time of prohibition . For this he bought the trademark rights to Old Fitzgerald Whiskey, which at the time was much more popular than Weller. At the same time, the company went completely to him in 1935,

After the end of Prohibition, Stitzel-Weller built a distillery in Shively (Kentucky) , Kentucky, a suburb of Louisville , Kentucky, where the stricter regulations of the big city did not apply. Old Fitzgerald was the distillery's signature brand, and other whiskey distilled there were Rebel Yell , Cabin Still , WL Weller and Old Rip Van Winkle . Van Winkel ran the distillery until his 90th birthday in 1964. He died a year later.

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SURNAME Van Winkle, Pappy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Van Winkle, Julian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American businessman
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Danville , Boyle County , Kentucky , USA
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1965
Place of death Louisville , Jefferson County , Kentucky , USA