Old Parr

[Fidelfs]

I found a few bottles of "Old Parr" in a liquor store in Texas, houston.

I bought as much as I can. I think 6 of them.

I still have some that I bought in one of trips to south america, so I know the taste very well. When I open one of the new ones and tasted it, what a surprise, it taste different.

Could it be a knock off? The bottle looks the same, the label is different a little bit, and the seal is different.

The original does not have and old man in the front label (just in the back) but it has the grand old Parr and it looks like old paper and it is framed by a maroon color. These are the type of bottles I always get.

The new one has a oldman i. The label,allthe wording is there, but different positions, not trying to be close to the original, but different. In the back has a label that reads all the US goverment (it is bad for pregnant woman to drink, etc.) It also says Imported by DIAGEO Americas, Norwalk, CT.

Is this a real old parr? Why taste different?

[Jojo]

We need to see photos!

[Fidelfs]

Here are the photos, I did the best I could!

The left is the bottle that I bought in South America and the one on the right is the one I bought locally in Houston.

[Fidelfs]

Any comments?

[blenderm]

I do know that Old Parr went through a design change a couple of years ago and these may be "before and after" bottles but I've never seen a whisky bottle sealed with what looks like black electrical tape. If that's the seal then I'd very careful about drinking it.

[Jojo]

Thanks Blenderm for your insight. Fidelfs - thanks for the photos; I will see what I can find out.

[Jojo]

Our contact at Old Parr's parent company archive department tells us the Grand Old Parr bottle design changed very little from the late 1970s until the late 1990s, but the bottles you bought in South America appears to be the 1989 design. The bottles bought in Houston are newer bottles. They have not been able to find an exact match in the archive collection; however the bottle states that it was imported by Diageo which means it was made after 1997 and bottles of a similar design in the archive are from 2002 so it is thought the bottles bought in Houston are around 10 years old.