Talk:McCormick Distilling Company

Do not delete

Please review the history before you delete an article on a National Register of Historic Places and the oldest distillery operating in the same location in the U.S.!!!! I cannot find the discussion to comment. Americasroof 01:23, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Dubious

I can't find anything referencing McCormick as a Tennessee whiskey distillery. If no one finds any reference, I'm going to delete the Tennessee part. --Skylights76 (talk) 11:19, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the catch. I have no idea why I put it on there to begin with. I don't see it on their site. If I find a reference I will put it back but for now I deleted it. Thanks again.Americasroof (talk) 12:31, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

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No whiskey?

In the products section of what they produce and/or import, vodka is heavily emphasized, and there is no mention whatsoever of the rail/call whiskey they produce. I have a 1.75L bottle in front of me: McCormick Special Reserve American Blended Whiskey Since 1856. 40% alcohol (80 proof). Selected and bottled by McCormick Distilling Co., Weston, MO. I do see references to "whisky" but whiskey without an E is usually a Canadian thing. 70.127.248.232 (talk) 19:57, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Continuously operating?

The article says the distillery "has been operating continuously at the same location longer than any other distillery in the United States". I believe this to be basically false, and I'm particularly focused on the word "continuously" (as well as the word "distillery"). The article says that during Prohibition "the distillery remained open by producing whisky for medicinal purposes". The article cites two sources for this information. One is the company official website. What I see claimed on the company website is "the oldest distillery west of the Mississippi River still operating in its original location" (which, aside from excluding anything east of the Mississippi, also does not use the word "continuously". The other cited source is an archived copy of a non-functioning Missouri travel tourism guide. The tourism guide does not seem very reliable (it even has an obvious typographical error in the relevant quoted phrase), and it also does not say what the article says that it says. It says only that the distillery is "operating at it original site" – without the word "continuously". My understanding is that all beverage distilling was halted by Prohibition in the United States for at least about a decade, at least for whiskey, and the medicinal market was served from previously distilled stock held in warehouses until around 1930. The company might have been operating as a company (and the word "distillery" might have been part of the company name), but I suspect it was not operating as a distillery during most of the Prohibition period. —BarrelProof (talk) 17:31, 22 September 2019 (UTC)