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This is a 1954 magazine advertisement for Fundador Brandy produced in Spain by Pedro Domecq. - U.S. Importer: Canada Dry Ginger Ale, NY
--- In 1725 an Irishman, Patrick Murphy had set up the sherry company that the Domecqs, then a minor French noble family, inherited in 1822. Pedro Domecq produced brandy and sherry until 1994 when the family was bought out and Pedro Domecq became part of the UK-based Allied Domecq. Fundador is Spain's largest export brandy, aged in the traditional solera system. Sherry-soaked barrels give the brandy its distinctive taste and warm colour.
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