![]() The upper floor barrels are generally their premium bourbons, usually aged 8 years.Elmer doesn’t know why the warehouse age differently but that they do.Elmers favorite is I and K, it seems to age to his liking better.The colonel thought wearhouse H produced the best barrels.When Elmer retired Bob asked him if they could name one after him, and Elmer said yes as long as he could pick the barrels.Bob invited his competitors to do the same thing but non did the next year but then they did, Rock Hill Farms, Hancock Reserve.Bob went with that concepts and name and let Elmer pick the barrels in 1984.Elmer told Bob about Blatnon’s “honey barrels” he used for his parties.Bob Baranaskas went to Elmer and told him they wanted to come out with the best premium bourbon, and how to do it.Blanton’s was their first product, but did not take off the first year.Concept was to select the best aged barrels and bottle it one at a time.But they took a lot out of the plant selling off a lot of assets and not maintaining the plant, then they sold it to Sazerac in 1992 who spent a lot of money updating it.He remembers that two men were primarily involved one was in sales at Shinly and Bob Baranaskas was a financial guy. ![]()
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