Tag: Jimmy Russell

As I’ve mentioned here, I recently went to Chicago for WhiskyFest. When I told people I was headed to the Windy City, at least three times I heard: ”Oh – you HAVE to go to Delilah’s!” Well, you usually only have to…

Russell’s Reserve Small Batch Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Bourbon 110 proof; no age statement $49.99/750ml This new expression from Wild Turkey’s Jimmy and Eddie Russell is bottled at a higher proof than Russell’s Reserve (110 vs. 90) and is “non-chill-filtered,” meaning the distillery isn’t chilling…

Jimmy and Eddie Russell have cooked up a new product over at Wild Turkey: Russell’s Reserve Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. At 110 proof, it should have a bigger kick than Russell’s Reserve (90) or the Wild Turkey whiskeys,…

“It’s got a great color, that good, bright (color), which means it should still be a good-tasting product. When it stays that same color all those years you know it’s well-made, been aged well.” Wild Turkey master distiller Jimmy Russell,…

Trey White, CEO of Anderson Valley Brewing Co., and Jimmy Russell, master distiller for Wild Turkey, toasted their companies’ first collaboration at a rollout of Anderson Valley’s Bourbon Barrel Stout at the Silver Dollar Lounge in Louisville on Nov. 7….

Wild Turkey announced this week that it is teaming up with the Anderson Valley Brewing Company in Boonville, Calif., to produce a line of bourbon barrel-aged craft beers. Anderson Valley will use repurposed oak barrels from Wild Turkey to infuse its craft…

Making bourbon was once largely a skill that was handed down from generation to generation. But only a few distilleries today carry on that family tradition. One of them is Wild Turkey, where master distiller Jimmy Russell (above) and his…

To celebrate Bourbon Heritage Month – and master distiller Jimmy Russell’s 58th year (!) with the company – Wild Turkey sent along this handy infographic about our native spirit.

Wild Turkey broke ground yesterday on a $4 million visitors center that will sit just behind its new distillery building on Wild Turkey Hill in Lawrenceburg, Ky. (That’s an artist rendering above.) The 8,500-square-foot visitors center will replace the current 1,000-square-foot gift…

“On Derby Day, you can always tell the tourists from the locals,” Wild Turkey Master Distiller Jimmy Russell tells Esquire magazine. “Once ‘My Old Kentucky Home’ is over, we put down our mint juleps and pick up the bourbon.” Read…