Description
When the Van Winkle family sold the Stitzel-Weller distillery in 1972, the new ownership offered Julian II an office and first refusal on casks with which to pursue his new bottling venture. He named it the Commonwealth Distillery Co and focussed on bottling Stitzel-Weller casks in porcelain commemorative decanters. When he died, his son Julian III moved the operation to the old Hoffman distillery ...

