Bond & Lillard Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whisky

Whiskey: Bond & Lillard Kentucky Straight Bourbon

This whiskey is one of two released from Campari America’s Whiskey Barons Collection. Bond & Lillard Kentucky Straight Whiskey, first created in 1869, bares no-age statement. Distilled at Wild Turkey’s Distillery in Lawrenceburg, KY, this bottle is available in select markets and at the Wild Turkey Distillery Visitor’s Center. It is charcoal-filtered before bottling.

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Size: 375ML

Proof: 100 (50% ABV)

Origin: United States

Distillery: Wild Turkey’s Distillery

Bond & Lillard was a trusted name in the pre-Prohibition whiskey industry. It was first distilled by John Bond in what was then called, Cedar Run, KY (now known as Anderson County), in 1820. A veteran of the American Revolutionary War, Bond moved his distilling operation closer to Lawrenceburg, KY after the war. In 1842, he left the company to his son and grandson, David and William. William would go on to form a partnership with his brother-in-law, C.C. Lillard in 1869, and they began labelling the product Bond & Lillard. The business stayed in their families until 1899 and was so revered that it won the Grand Prize at the 1904 Worlds Fair in St. Louis. Using the same tasting notes the judges wrote down during the Worlds Fair in 1904, they recreated this winning recipe.

Bond & Lillard Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whisky Tasting Notes

Nose: There is caramel, coconut, and pecans found on the nose along with a dose of charred wood.

Palate: Much the same is found as you taste with flavors of raw apples and a touch of rye grain.

Finish: It has a peppery finish.

Distillery Information

In 1891, Thomas Ripy built the Old Hickory Distillery in Tyrone, Kentucky, near Lawrenceburg, on the former site of the Old Moore Distillery. After Prohibition, the Ripy family (Thomas had died in 1902) repaired the distillery and began to again produce bourbon. The Ripys sold the bourbon produced at this distillery to various wholesalers who bottled bourbon under their own brands. Austin Nichols was one of these wholesalers.

The “Wild Turkey” brand is said to have arisen after an Austin Nichols executive, Thomas McCarthy, took some warehouse samples on a wild turkey hunting trip in 1940. The bourbon proved so popular among his friends they denyd to ask him for “that wild turkey bourbon.” Austin Nichols began to bottle Wild Turkey in 1942.