![]() The TOC below links to the relevant sections like the Wild Turkey Distillery Timeline, Release Dates, etc. ![]() He’s the walking embodiment of a living legend. A man whose influence on the bourbon community and global perception of the category can only be understated. Wild Turkey is a distillery with a long and storied history and home to the longest-tenured master distiller of all time, Mr. So profile and character could change from bottle to bottle pre ’71. In one of Mike Veach’s timelines, he has accounts of others distilling the brand. Sources report that most of the pre-71 whiskey came from the Goulds, who owned Boulevard, but that doesn’t mean all of it was. The first Wild Turkey labels rolled out in 1940 but, being an NDP, Austin, Nichols & Co. was still sourcing from a variety of distilleries till 1971 when they bought the Boulevard distillery and renamed it Wild Turkey. It wasn’t till these three timelines merged in 1971 that Wild Turkey became the brand we know today. The Ripy family, who eventually build the distillery, came to the USA around 1830. The Austin Nichols company, founded in 1855 as Fitts, Martin and Clough, was a grocer and NDP which bought whiskey and wine on the open market and bottled it under their own labels a practice that’s going strong today. The first distillery on Wild Turkey Hill was established in 1850 by the name of Old Moore. Even though its name stems from a hunting trip in 1936, the story of distilling and business that lead to what we now call Wild Turkey started over 100 years before that fateful hunting trip. Over the years Wild Turkey has become a brand I truly enjoy and admire and I’ve wanted to dig into the history of the Wild Turkey distillery for a while now. The point is it was one of three transformative bottles for me and so it’s only fitting I start my distillery highlight series with Wild Turkey. Is it immature that holding that bottle made me feel like an adult back then? Yes, but I was 23 and you likely did, said and thought a lot of dumb things when you were that age too. Hailing from the Wild Turkey distillery, it was the ultimate workhorse of the whiskey world: the Wild Turkey 101. ![]() When I was beginning my journey through the wild world of whiskey I came across a bottle that looked rustic and gave me that sense of “drinking like a man”.
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