Colonel E.H. Taylor Jr. Warehouse C Bourbon Whiskey

Sometimes a devastating tornado leaves a rich Bourbon behind. There has been Whiskey made on the site of the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky, for more than two hundred years. The first distillery operation that can be continuously traced to Buffalo Trace was started in 1812 by Harrison Blanton (yes, that Blanton). He sold the operation in 1870 and it was renamed the Old Fire Copper (O. F. C.) Distillery. It has been bought and sold many times over the intervening decades, but Sazerac has owned the property since 1992. They produce a wide range of Bourbons and Spirits — including their signature Bourbon. It was a Sunday evening in April 2006 when a terrible storm hit the Buffalo Trace distilleries. A tornado damaged Warehouse C: a precious warehouse, built by Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr. in 1885. But as tragic as that storm was, it left something unexpectedly good behind. Just how life works sometimes, I guess? Anyway, aging barrels were left exposed to the Central Kent