It’s been some time since we’ve had a Whiskey Wednesday round right here, but it surely appears like all the massive information recently has been breaking early within the week. So let’s slide into the weekend with a little bit of brown-water information.
First up, they’ve obtained loads of causes to have fun in Lynchburg recently. Even in a depressed whiskey market, the parents at Jack Daniel’s proceed to innovate and put out some wonderful new merchandise whereas sustaining the standard requirements of their flagship choices. Earlier this month, Jack Daniel’s 14-12 months-Outdated Tennessee Whiskey Batch 1 was awarded World’s Finest Tennessee Whiskey at Whisky Journal’s 2026 Icons of Whisky and World Whiskies Awards America, held Feb. 12 in Louisville, Ky.
This historic batch is the oldest Tennessee whiskey that Jack Daniel’s has launched with an age assertion since Mr. Daniel himself nonetheless trod the picket flooring of the distillery. In my assessment on the time of its launch, I used to be really impressed by this superb whiskey, noting that the “flavors have been a roller-coaster trip on the palate. In succession, the whiskey exhibited cinnamon, molasses and caramel, adopted by virtually tropical fruity notes earlier than the grains and oak took over, with the same old lengthy wooden and leather-based end that finally remodeled into one thing akin to pipe tobacco saved in a cedar field.”
I really feel like my opinion continues to be strengthened by the awards this whiskey is receiving, and that makes me suppose possibly my palate isn’t getting worse with age. I’ve been part of a number of year-end blind tastings with some consultants who I actually respect, and Jack 14 has completed at or close to the very prime in all of them.
Chris Fletcher was named Grasp Distiller/Grasp Blender of the 12 months at that very same awards ceremony, in half due to his administration of the consistency of Jack Daniel’s manufacturing, but in addition for the fast improve in innovation of recent merchandise over the 5 years he has been grasp distiller. He has spearheaded and shepherded the event and launch of many award-winning, premium releases together with the Bonded Sequence and the Aged Sequence, in addition to extensively celebrated expressions from the Particular Launch Sequence and the Distillery Sequence line of experimental whiskeys.
A Lynchburg native, Fletcher is the grandson of one other iconic Jack Daniel’s Grasp Distiller, Frank Bobo. I’m sure Grandpa Frank can be proud!
In different whiskey information, Two Rivers Mansion is holding its inaugural dog-friendly whiskey pageant, Whiskey & Wags, on Saturday, March 28, from 2 to five p.m. Hosted in partnership with the Tennessee Whiskey Path, this occasion will deliver collectively Tennessee spirits, stay music, native meals, and loads of pooches on the historic grounds of Two Rivers Mansion at 3130 McGavock Pike.
In the course of the night, company can take guided excursions of the mansion, pattern merchandise from greater than 20 Tennessee distilleries, store from native distributors and meals purveyors, and revel in stay music. Garden chairs are advised and canines are wholeheartedly invited!
Listed here are the distilleries which have signed as much as take part to this point:
• Massive Machine Distillery
• Chattanooga Whiskey
• Firm Distilling
• Corsair Distillery
• Drop Zone Distilling
• George Dickel (Cascade Hole)
• Junction 35 Distillery
• Leatherwood Distillery
• Leiper’s Fork Distillery
• Misplaced State Distilling
• Nelson’s Inexperienced Brier Distillery
• Outdated Dominick
• Outdated Forge Distillery
• Outdated Glory Distilling Co
• Ole Smoky Distillery
• Prichard’s Distillery
• Roaring River Distillery
• Brief Mountain Distillery
• Silverbelly Whiskey
• Secure Reserve Distillery
• Sugarlands Distilling Co.
• Tennessee Hills Distillery
• Tennessee Legend Distillery
Tickets are on sale now on the Two Rivers Mansion web site.
