Suntory, the whiskey producer, acquired Château Lagrange in Bordeaux in 1983 and has investments in several other prestigious properties in that region.
The company is headquartered in Tullahoma, Tennessee, where Diageo owned, Tennessee whiskey producer George Dickel, is also headquartered.
Diageo is the world's biggest whiskey producer, so it only makes sense they've got a lot of stray whiskey lying around -- barrels that, for one reason or another, slipped through the cracks.
After years of being a quirky loner, Bourye has been joined this fall in liquor stores by two other bourbon-rye blends: Forgiven, made by the Kentucky distilling giant Wild Turkey, and Jefferson's Chef's Collaboration, the work of Jefferson's Bourbon, a well-respected Kentucky producer that buys whiskey from other producers to bottle under its own name.
Kentucky Bourbon Distilleries, the owners of such well-known brands as Willet, Johnny Drum and Noah's Mill, among others, is a distillery but sources all of its whiskey from other producers until its own stocks are ready.
There's a low-rent faux-art-deco office, there's the clink of ice rolling around in cheaper-than-it-looks whiskey, hairy armed producers in thick rimmed glasses sat slightly too close to their very female secretaries.
Vintry trades exclusively in small artisan producers of whiskey and wine; all of the mixed drinks on the cocktail list have a whiskey base.
Bourbon is distilled once, Scotch twice and Irish three times, lending a greater smoothness to Irish whiskey, or so its producers contend.
Strong opposition to the whiskey tax by cottage producers in remote, rural regions erupted into the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794; in Western Pennsylvania and western Virginia, whiskey was the basic export product and was fundamental to the local economy.
