Bonded Tennessee Whiskey

Our first Bonded Tennessee Whiskey uses our signature Tennessee Whiskey mash bill of 75% corn, 13% rye and 12% malted barley for a tasting experience that brings vanilla, anise, tobacco, caramel and creme brulee, with wisps of oak on a silky smooth medium finish. Our first release was laid down in barrels in the Fall of 2017 in our barrel room in our South Front Street distillery in the heart of Memphis.

In the early days of whiskey distilling in America, some disreputable distillers of dubious character cut their whiskey with all kinds of things that weren’t whiskey—like iodine, tobacco spit or even gasoline—to get the color exactly the way they wanted it, or to make the batch go further.

In 1897, President Grover Cleveland signed the Bottled-in-Bond Act, giving honest distillers the credibility of the U.S. Government to ensure that their whiskey was the real deal, genuine article. When discerning drinkers bought bottled-in-bond whiskeys, they could now be sure that the product they were buying was quality.

To be labeled and classified as Bottled-in-Bond, a whiskey has to meet the following requirements:

• Must be the product of a single distilling season (either from January to June, or July to December) by a single distiller, at a single distillery.
• It must have been aged in a federally bonded warehouse under U.S. government supervision for at least four years
• It must be bottled at 100 proof (or 50% ABV.)

These strict requirements often draw comparisons to the exacting standards required of fine single malts in Scotland and Ireland, making American bottled-in-bond whiskeys a truly special and unique product in the world of distilled spirits.