In the annals of Irish distilling, the story of D.W.D. is one of the most illustrious. Unfortunately D.W.D. was conspired against and conveniently written out of history. Founded by the late great John Brannick, on the banks of the River Tolka in 1872, the Jones’s Road distillery rapidly established itself as one of the best in the world.
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In 1887, the greatness of D.W.D. was formally recognised by Alfred Barnard in his seminal book, 'The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom'. Barnard visited each of the Six Great Distilleries of Dublin City and applauded D.W.D. as 'the most modern of the distilleries, the product made by D.W.D. is of the highest class of Dublin make'. He also praised Brannick's vision by writing 'a mastermind and skilled hand had planned this great work'.
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Despite a total ban on the export of whiskey by the Irish Government during the second world war, inexplicably a unique export licence was granted by the same Government to D.W.D. and the irreplaceable maturing stocks of this great Dublin distillery was sold piecemeal into British wartime markets for vast profit.
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