Barton 1792 Distillery is the oldest operating distillery in Bardstown, KY. It is unique amongst the Kentucky distilleries as it is 100% an industrial complex. Unfortunately, because of that, they no longer give public tours. However, you can live vica…
Barton 1792 Distillery is the oldest operating distillery in Bardstown, KY. It is unique amongst the Kentucky distilleries as it is 100% an industrial complex. Unfortunately, because of that, they no longer give public tours. However, you can live vicariously through us by reading all about our visit. Let's go!
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1792 Small Batch Bourbon is distilled at the the Barton 1792 Distillery in Bardstown, KY. It is the flagship bourbon of the 1792 line and is made from a high rye recipe. The Barton 1792 Distillery also just happens to be the oldest operating distillery in Bardstown. Read our 1792 Small Batch Bourbon review to learn more!
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Please enjoy our 1792 Small Batch Bourbon Review!
Very little specific information is given about 1792 Small Batch Bourbon. It is said to be made with a “signature ‘high rye’ recipe”. Unfortunately, we aren’t given any specifics about the mash bill. Likewise, while it was age stated as at least 8 years in the past, it no longer has an age statement. Rumor has it that it may still be in the 7-8 year range, though. So since we can’t talk about the bourbon, let’s talk about the the Barton 1792 Distillery. Fortunately, there is plenty to discuss.
The history of the Barton 1792 Distillery runs deep. The company was founded in 1879 and is the oldest operating distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky, (except of course for that pesky period of Prohibition). Its past is a bit complicated. In the late nineteenth century, names like Franke & Willett Distillery and Mattingly & Moore Distillery were in play. These two names identified the same distillery property which was located adjacent to Barton’s current distillery site.
Thomas Moore of Mattingly & Moore, struck out on his own in 1899. He purchased 80 acres next to the Mattingly & Moore distillery and opened the Thomas Moore Distillery. When his neighbor went bankrupt in 1916, Moore purchased the property and it is this combined 196 acres that created the current Barton 1792 Distillery. A few more name changes took place after Moore. Barton replaced Moore in 1944 courtesy of new owner Oscar Getz and Constellation brands added “1792” around 2002. Now owned by the Sazerac Company since 2009, Barton 1792 produces the flagship brands of Very Old Barton and 1792 (formerly known as Ridgemont Reserve 1792).
Let’s taste it:
Rested for 15 minutes in a Glencairn
Nose: Dark cherry, vanilla, caramel, mild oak & leather; touch of spice and cinnamon; moderate alcoholTaste: Caramel, vanilla, sweet black cherry, some brown sugar sweetness; mild charFinish: Cherry and sweetness continue and there’s a growing, but still fairly tame, white and black pepper spice that lingers for a while; moderately long finish with a bit of a lingering burn
1792 Small Batch Bourbon is quite full flavored, with some richness and pastry character to it, especially in the nose. All the classic bourbon flavors are here, topped off with a bit of extra black and white pepper spice on the finish. That is presumably compliments of the “high rye” recipe. The finish is a bit of a change from the nose and taste, but the spice acts almost as a palate cleanser, getting me ready for another sip, over and over again.
It has actually been quite a while since I have had this particular offering from 1792. I tended to overlook it for all of their limited offerings, but perhaps that was a mistake, as this is really quite an enjoyable bourbon in itself. It should please both seasoned and novice bourbon drinkers alike.
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Tom Moore Bottled In Bond Bourbon is distilled at the Barton Distilling Company. Therefore, I would expect that even though it comes in a plastic 1.75 liter jug for 21.99, that it would still be a decent bourbon. It’s Bottled In Bond, and therefore it’s at least a 4 year old bourbon. In addition, Thomas Moore was essentially the founder of what is now the Barton 1792 Distillery, so how could it not be a great value bourbon?
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Please enjoy my Tom Moore Bourbon Review!
Tom Moore Bottled In Bond Bourbon is distilled by the Barton Distilling Company. Therefore, I would expect that even though it comes in a plastic 1.75 liter jug for 21.99, that it would still be a decent bourbon. It’s Bottled In Bond, and therefore it’s at least a 4 year old bourbon. In addition, Thomas Moore was essentially the founder of what is now the Barton 1792 Distillery, so how could it not be a great value bourbon?
In the late 19th century, names like the Franke & Willett Distillery and Mattingly & Moore Distillery were in play. These two names identified the same distillery property which was located adjacent to Barton 1792’s current distillery site. Thomas Moore of Mattingly & Moore, struck out on his own in 1899. He purchased 80 acres next to the Mattingly & Moore distillery and opened the Thomas Moore Distillery. When his neighbor went bankrupt in 1916, Moore purchased the property and it is this combined 196 acres that created the current Barton Distillery. So, how could I not expect this to be another high quality value bottled in bond bourbon?
Let’s taste it:
Rested for 15 minutes in a Glencairn
Nose: Burnt caramel, vanilla, brown sugar; mild alcohol, subtle oak, cinnamon and Juicy Fruit gumTaste: Dry oak, tannins, woodiness, but not in a good way; powerful notes of very burnt caramel; a hint of the Juicy Fruit lingers but rapidly fadesFinish: Tannin and dry oak pick up some char and stale pepper spice and linger into a moderately long astringent finish
The dominant notes in the nose, vanilla and burnt caramel, are very pleasant. The brown sugar and Juicy Fruit flavors appear as I become more acclimated to it. The nose makes me anticipate another surprisingly good budget bourbon. However, it only takes a second after this bourbon touches my tongue, and my bubble is burst. All of the pleasant flavors in the nose are rapidly replaced by overbearing burnt caramel and dry, astringent woodiness. And it only gets worse in the finish.
I honestly can’t believe Tom Moore Bottled in Bond Bourbon comes out of the Barton 1792 Distillery. Even letting it open up for a few hours does not lessen the harsh flavors. I’m not sure what happened here, but even for 21 bucks for a 1.75 liter bottle, it’s a pass for me. I still have 1.74 liters to go, and I’m not sure what I’m going to do with it. There are way better bourbons out there for just a tiny bit more. I have found very few reviews for this bourbon, and other than one from 2021, they are all from a few or more years ago. Most reviews are favorable, so I’m not sure if the bourbon has changed or if I got a bad bottle? Have you had the Tom Moore Bottled in Bond Bourbon? What did you think?
I hope you have enjoyed my Tom Moore Bourbon Review! Would you like to read about another value bourbon from the Barton 1792 Distillery? Check out my Very Old Barton Bourbon Review!
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In a Facebook post in early April, Barton 1792 Distillery announced they will cease public distillery tours effective June 30th of this year. Here is the Facebook post in its entirety:Today we’re sharing an important update regarding tour op…
In a Facebook post in early April, Barton 1792 Distillery announced they will cease public distillery tours effective June 30th of this year.
Here is the Facebook post in its entirety:
Today we’re sharing an important update regarding tour operations at Barton 1792 Distillery: after careful review of our brand needs, plant capacity, safety, and practicality we have made the decision to no longer offer public tours at the Distillery effective June 30. Instead, we’ll concentrate Barton 1792 Distillery on what it does best: producing the world’s best whiskey.
If you've already booked a tour or visit prior to June 30, 2022, it will happen as planned.
We thank you for your support over the years and hope to welcome you to one of our other homeplaces in the future.
If you are in Kentucky before the end of June, the distillery is located at 501 Cathedral Manor, Bardstown, KY 40004.
My Take
A huge bummer anytime a distillery closes tours to the public. While I've never been to Barton, it is located in Bardstown, which is home to a lot of the various distilleries so it could easily be knocked out in tandem with the others in the area.
If you're in the area before June 30th, it's probably worth a try to get in a tour before it's closed for good.
What do you think? Drop a note in the comments below.
Source: Barton 1792
BARDSTOWN, KY – Big news just splashed in the Bourbon Capital of The World. Sazerac owned 1792 Barton Distillery just announced yesterday via social media that effective June 30th, 2022, it will NO longer offer public tours. Noted in their Facebook post,”If you’ve ALREADY booked a tour prior to June 30th, it will be honored.“ […]
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BARDSTOWN, KY – Big news just splashed in the Bourbon Capital of The World. Sazerac owned 1792 Barton Distillery just announced yesterday via social media that effective June 30th, 2022, it will NO longer offer public tours.
Noted in their Facebook post,”If you’ve ALREADY booked a tour prior to June 30th, it will be honored.“
Here is the entire passage from yesterday’s FB post:
Today we’re sharing an important update regarding tour operations at Barton 1792 Distillery: after careful review of our brand needs, plant capacity, safety, and practicality we have made the decision to no longer offer public tours at the Distillery effective June 30. Instead, we’ll concentrate Barton 1792 Distillery on what it does best: producing the world’s best whiskey. If you’ve already booked a tour or visit prior to June 30, 2022, it will happen as planned.
We thank you for your support over the years and hope to welcome you to one of our other homeplaces in the future.
Can’t help to note we’re a bit sad to see this from the public view. Barton 1792 was a gritty “real” tour experience. Not the country club scene. No fancy horse farms in site. As they noted for reasons of shutting down the public tours, just a core focus on making damn good whiskey. Hard to argue against that at the end of the day.
Now, if Buffalo Trace Distillery decided to follow suit, well, that would be a different story:)
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Who’s ready to party, Mardi Gras style?! On March 1st (Fat Tuesday), the Kentucky Derby Museum is bringing Bourbon Street to Bourbon Country for a Nawlings themed soiree you won’t want to miss. The Bourbon Review Founder/President, Seth Thompson, will host this delicious evening with special guest Danny Kahn, Barton 1792 Master Distiller, guiding you […]
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Who’s ready to party, Mardi Gras style?!
On March 1st (Fat Tuesday), the Kentucky Derby Museum is bringing Bourbon Street to Bourbon Country for a Nawlings themed soiree you won’t want to miss. The Bourbon Review Founder/President, Seth Thompson, will host this delicious evening with special guest Danny Kahn, Barton 1792 Master Distiller, guiding you through a tasting that includes:
A New Orleans themed dinner will accompany your libations as you learn about 1792 and the history closely linking Kentucky Bourbon to The Big Easy.
LIVE JAZZ MUSIC: Enjoy the foot tappin’ sounds of West Market Street Brass Band.
TIME: 6 – 8:30pm EST
TICKET OPTIONS:
Come join us for an incredible evening of indulgent food, sensational sips, and live music!
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I think what is most interesting about Very Old Barton Bourbon is that it is nowhere to be found on the Barton 1792 website. So maybe it’s listed on the Sazarac (it’s parent company) “Our Brands” website. Nope. That’s OK, I’ll just check the bottle label for a story. Wait a minute – there is no back label. Strange. It’s not that Sazerac is hiding this bourbon; they give a sample of it during their tastings at the Barton 1792 Distillery. But why is there absolutely no information available about it?
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Please enjoy our Very Old Barton Bourbon review!
I think what is most interesting about Very Old Barton Bourbon is that it is nowhere to be found on the Barton 1792 website. So maybe it’s listed on the Sazarac (it’s parent company) “Our Brands” website. Nope. That’s OK, I’ll just check the bottle label for a story. Wait a minute – there is no back label. Strange. It’s not that Sazerac is hiding this bourbon; they give a sample of it during their tastings at the Barton 1792 Distillery. But why is there absolutely no information available about it?
What we do know about Very Old Barton Bourbon 100 Proof is that at one time it had a 6 year age statement, and at one time it bore the bottled in bond designation. Those days are gone, though. We know this bourbon should still be at least 4 years old since it has to be if it has no age statement; that’s the law. And no one breaks the law.
Rumor has it that it is made up of bourbons 4-6 years old. Very Old Barton also comes in 80, 86 and 90 proof versions.
Let’s taste Very Old Barton Bourbon 100 Proof:
Rested for 15 minutes in a Glencairn
Nose: Cinnamon, apples, pears, baking spices, caramel, oak & leather; alcohol is noticeable.Taste: Caramel, char, oak, cinnamon & moderate simple syrup sweetnessFinish: Juicy fruit gum appears early but gives way as cinnamon returns to dominance; a black pepper spiciness joins it; both linger. Moderately long finish with a mild burn
Very Old Barton Bourbon 100 Proof is a very enjoyable pour. While the flavors are dominated by cinnamon, the cinnamon is relatively mild and works and plays well with others. The funny thing about this is that I have tasted this bourbon many time before and did not notice the dominant cinnamon until I was writing this review. So, to be sure, I asked my wife her opinion, and she concurred. So, unless someone snuck into our house under the cover of darkness, or the dog was up to some crazy antics, I’m going to have assume these cinnamon flavors are real.
I hope you enjoyed my Very Old Barton Bourbon review! Check out our full write up on the Barton 1792 Distillery to learn some of its history and to see lots of photos. Read our Kirkland Bottled in Bond Bourbon review and learn about another value 100 proof bourbon from Barton 1792. Cheers!
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Please enjoy my Kirkland Bottled in Bond Bourbon Review! There are a lot of store brand whiskeys out there. But what’s interesting about this Kirkland Bottled in Bond Bourbon from Costco is that it says the name of the distillery where it was made, Barton 1792 Distillery, right on the label.
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Please enjoy my Kirkland Bottled in Bond Bourbon Review!
There are a lot of store brand whiskeys out there. But what’s interesting about this Kirkland Bottled in Bond Bourbon from Costco is that it says the name of the distillery where it was made, Barton 1792 Distillery, right on the label. Now, the thing is, this is a bottled in bond bourbon so it does have to say somewhere where it is distilled. Many of the other store brands use some random distillery name, which I assume is registered under a dba for a big distillery like Barton, and then they use the big distillery’s DSP number on their label. So you can always figure out where the bourbon was made, but they make you work for it a little.
Let’s taste it:
Rested for 10 minutes in a Glencairn
Nose: Apple, cherry, honey, caramel, oak, rye spices; moderate alcoholTaste: Fairly sweet black tea, oak, light char, simple syrupFinish: Light sweetness continues, char builds. Moderately long finish.
This is not at all a complex bourbon. It has the flavors I would expect from Barton; classic flavors, with a bit more oak than I would have expected. It’s non-aged stated, but for the price I am assuming it is not much older than the required 4 years, but you never know.
This is an enjoyable bourbon. At $34 it is not quite a value Bottled in Bond, but it is pretty close since you do get a liter. It’s impossible to not want to compare this to 1792 Bottled in Bond. I coincidentally have this Lincoln Road Package Store pick to do a little comparison to, and there are certainly some similarities. The nose is quite similar, but there is way more fullness and caramel in the Lincoln Road pick. In the taste the Lincoln Road has less sweetness, although similar flavors, and what I perceive as more maturity. However, the Lincoln Road Bottled in Bond was $45 for a 750ml, so considerably more expensive, but still reasonable. This wasn’t meant to be a comparison post, though; that territory belongs to my friend @whiskey_vs_whiskey, but I would have been remiss were I not to do so.
Have you had the Kirkland Bottled-in-Bond bourbon from Costco? What did you think? Cheers!
I hope you enjoyed my Kirkland Bottled in Bond Bourbon Review! Would you like to read a review about another bourbon from Barton 1792 Distillery? Check out my 1792 225th Anniversary Bourbon review!
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By Mark Gillespie September 11, 2021 – With the biggest weekend of the year in the “Bourbon Capital of the World” just a few days away, visitors to Bardstown, Kentucky for the Kentucky Bourbon Festival may be greeted with picket signs at the town’s newest attraction. Heaven Hill workers started a strike today after their five-year contract expired at midnight and are staffing a picket line outside the Heaven Hill Bourbon Experience, which opened this summer after a two-year renovation and upgrade project. Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23-D voted overwhelmingly in favor of the strike Read More »
By Mark Gillespie
September 11, 2021 – With the biggest weekend of the year in the “Bourbon Capital of the World” just a few days away, visitors to Bardstown, Kentucky for the Kentucky Bourbon Festival may be greeted with picket signs at the town’s newest attraction. Heaven Hill workers started a strike today after their five-year contract expired at midnight and are staffing a picket line outside the Heaven Hill Bourbon Experience, which opened this summer after a two-year renovation and upgrade project.
Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23-D voted overwhelmingly in favor of the strike Thursday night, according to Louisville television station WDRB. The local represents 420 production workers at Heaven Hill’s main campus in Bardstown and its maturation warehouses around Nelson County, and also represents workers at Barton 1792 Distillery and the Four Roses maturation and bottling facility in Cox’s Creek. Workers at the Heaven Hill Bourbon Experience visitors center are not represented by the union.
Union leaders are upset with what they claim is a proposal to change work shifts to create a “non-traditional” work schedule that includes Saturdays and Sundays, instead of the current Monday-Friday schedule for all production workers. “They feel that rather than working to live, they’re trying to implement things to make them live to work,” Local 23-D president Matt Aubrey told WhiskyCast in a telephone interview. “They’re family-owned and ‘hey, we want to treat everyone like family,’ they’re not treating these members like family…all these members out here, they have a family, they have sons and daughters, grandchildren…they have loved ones that if what the company wants to preserve and what it wants to push, it’s gonna take these members away from their family,” he said.
In 2016, workers were divided on whether to accept the contract that expired last night. That deal included $7,250 in bonuses for each worker over the length of the contract along with annual pay raises in the final three years, and 66% of those voting cast ballots to accept the new deal. According to union leaders, 96 percent of those voting Thursday night supported going on strike as soon as the contract expired.
Heaven Hill executives were not available for interviews, but shared this statement with WhiskyCast.
“Thursday evening, the membership of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23-D failed to ratify a new five-year contract with Heaven Hill. Since the company was founded, the support of our employees has been a source of pride and we have had productive conversations with the union for several months now regarding components of the contract. We will continue to collaborate with UFCW leadership toward passage of this top-of-class workforce package.”
The strike will also affect Heaven Hill’s participation in the Kentucky Bourbon Festival, which gets underway this Thursday. Festival officials have confirmed that Heaven Hill will not be taking part in tastings and other events during the festival, including the World Championship Bourbon Barrel Relay competition in which the distillery’s teams have dominated in recent years. Aubrey told WhiskyCast his members will not be allowed to carry picket signs anywhere other than at Heaven Hill facilities represented by Local 23-D, including the Bardstown campus and nearby maturation warehouses. However, they can wear t-shirts promoting their support for the strike in public – including at the Festival grounds around Spalding Hall in Bardstown.
The walkout will primarily affect Heaven Hill’s Bardstown-based bottling and maturation operations. Workers at Heaven Hill’s Bernheim Distillery in Louisville are represented by a different UFCW chapter, and spirits distilled at Bernheim are trucked to Bardstown to be filled into barrels before being placed in one of the company’s warehouses for maturation. Heaven Hill has not indicated whether production at Bernheim will be stopped or slowed down during the strike.
The last strike affecting a major Kentucky distiller came in September of 2018 when Four Roses workers walked out for two weeks over the company’s plans to create a different benefits package for new employees. That dispute ended when the company agreed to allow all employees to choose between the current sick leave policy or sign up for short-term disability insurance that takes effect after an employee uses 10 sick days in a year.
Aubrey also denied reports on social media suggesting that a strike is also coming at Sazerac’s Barton 1792 Distillery in Bardstown, noting that the union’s contract at 1792 Barton does not expire until 2024.
This story will be updated with additional information as it becomes available.
Editor’s note: This story was updated with additional information following an interview with UFCW Local 23-D president Matt Aubrey. In addition, we have clarified where Local 23-D members are allowed to picket to include the company’s maturation warehouse sites where union members work.
