Barton 1792 Distillery

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1792 Ridgemont Reserve

Barton Brands is a whiskey distillery in Bardstown . The distillery dates back to the Tom Moore distillery from the 1880s, which did not survive Prohibition in the United States. In 1934 Harry Teur bought the factory premises and built Barton Brands there. Barton is part of the New Orleans Sazerac Company . The Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History in Bardstown, however, goes back to the private collection of the former Barton owner Oscar Getz.

history

The Tom Moore Distillery was founded in the 1889 by Tom Moore and Ben Mattingly and was then one of over 20 distilleries in Bardstown that produced bourbon whiskey . The company did not survive prohibition in the United States. In 1934 Harry Teur bought the factory premises and built a new distillery there under the name Tom Moore. In 1944 Oscar Getz bought the site and renamed the company Barton Brands.

In 1945 the distillery burned down. At that time, the distillery was still producing neutral alcohol for the American armed forces during World War II. The fire developed on a pump that pumped alcohol and quickly spread across the distillery building. In addition to the distillery itself, 6000 bushe (about 2000 hectoliters) of grain were also burned . The warehouses themselves, however, remained standing.

Barton expanded in the following years and bought several distilleries and whiskey brands in the USA. Among other things, this resulted in the portfolio of the traditional Hiram Walker distillery from Illinois and the US distribution rights for the Corona beer . In 1993, in the midst of the Bourbon crisis, Canandaigua, later Constellation Brands , bought . Barton - on the one hand to acquire the rights to Corona, on the other hand to use the deposits in Bardstown to mature their own brandy. In 2009, Constellation sold all of its spirits to the Sazerac Company .

In addition to the distillery in Bardstown, Barton Brands has production facilities in Lansdowne , Maryland and Carson , California. The Kentucky site is officially called the Barton 1792 Distillery . While Constellation largely ignored the bourbon business and did not market the Bardstown bourbons, that changed with the Ridgemont Reserve 1792, which has been in production since 2002. This built on the trend towards expensive premium whiskeys that has existed since the 1990s, won several awards and is sold internationally. The Ridgemont Reserve gave the whole distillery a profile and attention, which also had an impact on the other brands.

Whiskeys

The best known and most widespread brand of Barton is the Ridgemont Reserve 1792. In addition, the distillery Kentucky Gentleman, Kentucky Tavern, Tom Moore, Ten High (especially popular in the military bases all over Europe after World War II) and Very Old Barton . Outside of Kentucky, Ridgemont Reserve 1792 is primarily marketed. The Very Old Barton (VOB) is the best-selling bourbon in Kentucky itself, but is rarely sold outside of that state. Most Barton whiskeys have a mash of 74% corn, 16% rye and 10% malt. In addition to bourbon, Barton Brands produces a rye whiskey (Fleischmann's) and gin, rum, schnapps, tequila and vodka.

Remarks

  1. ^ A b c Whiskey Nations, Dorling Kindersley Ltd, 2008 ISBN 1-4053-3624-2 , p. 187
  2. ↑ CK Cowdery: Bourbon, Straight - The Uncut and Unfiltered Story of American Whiskey. Made and Bottled in Kentucky, Chicago, Illinois 2004, ISBN 0-9758703-0-0 , p. 88
  3. ↑ a b c The Barton Distillery , American Spirits May 2011
  4. ↑ Keith Lawrence: Constellation Spirits sold in Sazerac deal , Messenger-Inquirer January 13, 2009
  5. ^ Gilbert Delos: Les Whiskeys du Monde. Translation from French: Karin-Jutta Hofmann: Whiskey from all over the world. Karl Müller, Erlangen 1998, ISBN 3-86070-442-7 , p. 147.
  6. ↑ CK Cowdery: Bourbon, Straight - The Uncut and Unfiltered Story of American Whiskey. Made and Bottled in Kentucky, Chicago, Illinois 2004, ISBN 0-9758703-0-0 . P. 67

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