Wattie Boone & Sons Ancient Reserve 8 Year Old American Whiskey, Kentucky, USA

A nod to one of the Founding Fathers of Bourbon.

Preservation Farms & Distillery is a special place. The forty acre estate sits in the heart of Kentucky bluegrass country along the Bourbon Trail. During her career as the CEO of a Liquor distribution company, founder Marci Palatella dreamed of just such a place. She purchased the farm and named it Preservation. Like many startups, at first they sourced Spirits for their releases, aging and bottling them in the barn. But eager to create her own supply, she constructed a distillery on site with a single pot still that produces just a few barrels per day to support their own brands, including Wattie Boone & Sons, Very Olde St. Nick, and Cowboy Little Barrel.

Wattie Boone is a big name in the history of Bourbon, having been one of the people who most likely invented it. It is said that Wattie Boone was the first documented person to make Bourbon in Kentucky. That was back in 1776 when Boone built the first distillery in Knob Creek. The local legend has it that even even the son of Abraham Lincoln worked there at some point. Boone made his Bourbon along the Beechfork, where Preservation Distillery is nestled in the rolling hills of Kentucky Bluegrass Country.

Their first single barrel of Wattie Boone Whiskey, Wattie Boone & Sons 8 Year Old Small Batch American Whiskey honors the pioneering distiller. Made in Tennessee and aged in Kentucky for 7 years before, it’s bottled at 94.7 proof, which perfectly delivers its notes of caramel, corn, citrus zest, oak, and makes for a nice balance of sweetness and spice.