![]() ![]() The godfather of “Pappy”, as it is now known, Julian Van Winkle, was born in Louisville way back in 1874.Ĭome 2021, however, most whiskey lovers would be prepared to sell a kidney for the privilege of having Pappy touch their lips. Pappy Van Winkle whiskey, in its current form, debuted on the shelves of liquor stores in 1994, the same year its 20-year-old was first released. If you want to own a bottle, you probably can’t, and if you want to try some, you’ll be paying a pretty penny for it. It’s during this new chapter as the Buffalo Trace Distillery that the company offered a lucrative lifeline to fellow whiskey distillers of the Pappy Van Winkle name, spring-boarding both brands to global fame. In 1999 the Buffalo Trace dram is launched and becomes the flagship of the revitalised distillery that’ll soon adopt its name. This was a golden ticket to Prohibition survival that could have otherwise signalled the end of the Buffalo Trace story right there, dead in its tracks.įast forward over 50 years of refinement and evolution, and the distillery is eventually purchased by the Sazerac Company, finally returning it to a family-owned business. Amazingly, it then became one of even fewer permitted to produce new whiskey from 1930 to 1933. Stagg Distillery, as it was known at this point in its history, was one of just a handful of distilleries to receive a special permit to bottle medicinal whiskey. The 18th Amendment establishing Prohibition was ratified in January 1920 and the Volstead Act was passed to guide its enforcement. But at the time, the improvements of the distilling facilities were actually preparing the new owners for a little known issue looming on the bourbon industry’s horizon – the Prohibition era. ![]() Interestingly, all of these buildings – including a large mashing and fermenting wing – are still used today. As the demand for whiskey exploded across a new America that was on the cusp of industrialisation, $44,000 was poured into its reconstruction – well and truly above the insurance figure collected. Stagg, a lightning strike and what was subsequently known as “The Great Fire” reduced the site to rubble. In 1882, four years after the distillery changed hands to George T. Taylor Jr invested $70,000 (an obscene sum of money for 1872) into a new distillery which he christened the “O.F.C.” – a reference to the belief that the finest American whiskey could only be produced in old-fashioned wood-fired copper stills. Incredibly, for the opening century of its existence, the original bootleg distillery on the site was nothing more than a storehouse a hub of trade and shipping for whiskey and other goods around the country.Īlmost 100 years to the day since the establishment of this Louisville settlement, Colonel E.H. ![]()
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