Taking a Trip on the Wilderness Trail
Kentucky’s Wilderness Trail Distillery has grown over the last decade from a small barrel-a-day distillery to become one of the nation’s largest Bourbon distilleries. Dr.… Read More
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Wild Turkey Unveils New Jimmy Russell Visitors Center
Campari has completed work on an upgraded visitors center at the Wild Turkey Distillery campus in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, and named it in honor of longtime… Read More
Glen Grant’s Dennis Malcolm to Retire
After a career spanning 63 years in the Scotch whisky industry, longtime Glen Grant master distiller Dennis Malcolm OBE will retire at the end of… Read More
Never Say Die Bourbon: A Whiskey with a Back Story
The stories behind the whiskies we drink are almost as enjoyable as the whiskies, and the story behind Never Say Die Bourbon is an intriguing… Read More
Wild Turkey Distillery Getting $161 Million Expansion Investment
It continues to get wilder and wilder in Bourbon Country…This week, Campari Group announced colossal plans to add a second distillery at its Wild Turkey campus in Lawrenceburg, KY. The company will invest $161 million and create 31 additional jobs in Anderson County. Campari Group will construct a brand-new distillery at the Wild Turkey campus […]
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Pride of Anderson County
In 2017, I was introduced to late-1990’s Wild Turkey Kentucky Legend, or “Donut,” as it’s often called. I was immediately impressed with the additional depth and complexity of a Wild Turkey single barrel bottled at full barrel strength. And it only mad…
Low ABV Cocktails – Not Quite Dry January
Mince pies, cake, roast turkey, port, Buck’s Fizz, roast potatoes, Champagne… December brings with it a host of delicious, indulgent treats. I can’t remember the last Christmas that didn’t end in me being so full…
Originally published on The Whisky Exchange Blog – Low ABV Cocktails – Not Quite Dry January
Wilderness Trail Distillery Bought by Campari at $600M Valuation
Bourbon is big business. Earlier this week, the news dropped that spirits giant Campari (Milan, Italy based) is set to buy a 70% stake in Danville, Kentucky’s “Wilderness Trail Distillery” (WTD) for a cool $420 mill. The distillery’s overall value being placed at $600M. Not bad for a juice maker that opened in 2012 with […]
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Russell’s Runamok
If you’d told me ten years ago that I’d be sharing the history of Wild Turkey Bourbon with bartenders from around the world, I would’ve chuckled. Bourbon was barely on my radar then. Wild Turkey, a fuzzy college memory. Standing on the porch of Tyrone’…
35 Years on Forty Creek (Episode 963: July 31, 2022)
Forty Creek master blender Bill Ashburn celebrated his 35th anniversary in the whisky business this week, and he’s one of those blenders content to stay out of the spotlight most of the time. Ashburn and John Hall put Canadian Whisky on a new course in 2000 when they released the Forty Creek Barrel Select and Three Grain whiskies, and Ashburn’s whiskies have won countless awards since then. He’ll join us on this week’s WhiskyCast In-Depth. In the news, we have details on the U.S. government’s proposal to create an official definition for American Single Malt whiskies, along with Beam Suntory’s Read More »