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Established in 1857, J.P. Wiser's is Canada's oldest continuously produced Canadian whisky. Hiram-Walker & Sons Limited produces J.P. Wiser's at their Windsor, ON distillery. Hiram Walker & Sons has been the majority shareholder of Corby Spirit & Wine since 1935. Both companies came into ownership of international liquor company Pernod Ricard in 2005. The J.P. Wiser's family of whiskies is the number one Canadian whisky brand in Canada, based on volume sales. ==Early history== John Philip (J.P.) Wiser was born in 1825 in New York, the son of Isaac J. Wiser and Mary Egert. In 1857, Wiser began running the Charles Payne Distillery and Farm in Prescott, Ontario, which was owned by his uncle, Charles Egert, and his uncle's business partner, Amos Averell. Five years after starting as manager of the distillery, Wiser bought out Egert and Averell to become its sole owner, which was producing 116,500 gallons of whisky a year. Wiser introduced his first bottles of whisky at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. Prior to this time, whisky was only sold in casks or barrels. By the time of the Civil War, Wiser's Red Letter Rye was sold in Canada and Wiser's Canada Whisky was for export. Wiser's son, Harlow, operated the distillery to an output of 500,000 gallons a year, but he died in 1895 at the age of 36 from a heart attack. By the early 1900s, Wiser was exporting whisky around the world and his distillery in Prescott became the third largest in Canada behind Hiram Walker's in Windsor and Gooderham & Worts' in Toronto. Wiser died in 1911 and the distillery was taken over by Albert Whitney, a treasurer who worked at the distillery for over 50 years. The company struggled after the death of J.P Wiser, and at the end of World War I, J.P. Wiser's was sold and merged with Corby, J.M. Douglas and Company Limited and Robert MacNish and Co. Limited of Scotland. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wiser's whisky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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