Wild Turkey is bringing back a Kentucky bourbon that hasn’t been readily available in the U.S. for nearly 30 years. The Lawrenceburg distillery announced in early April that the cult-favorite Wild ...
As long as I’ve been old enough to buy whiskey for myself, my go-to bourbon has been Wild Turkey. I don’t remember exactly how that came to be, but if I was headed to a house party or a basement gig, ...
A whiskey release a decade ago that started as a mistake proved so popular that now Wild Turkey is repeating it. Sort of. The Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, distiller is releasing Master’s Keep Unforgotten, ...
Can extended aging and traditional production methods make one high-proof bourbon objectively better than another? Wild ...
Staring at a bottle of Wild Turkey Generations, and considering its $450 price tag, it’s a little hard to know what to say. It was just a month ago, that I wrote the following about the second release ...
More than 70 years ago, master distiller Jimmy Russell, known in the industry as the "Buddha of Bourbon," decided to keep his Wild Turkey 101 bourbon pure. That pre-Prohibition flavor remains to this ...
As bourbon fans flocked to the Wild Turkey visitors’ center, sitting near the entrance was no ordinary greeter. Jimmy Russell, who has lived through so much of the distillery’s rich history, was at ...
Jimmy Russell has worked for Wild Turkey for 69 years, starting in 1954 and becoming master distiller about a decade later. Even as he approaches 90, Jimmy can still often be found at the distillery, ...
Welcome to Shelf Sleepers, our semi-regular guide to the best booze nobody is buying. This time: Russell’s Reserve 10-Year, a bourbon that has managed to travel through time and space to land on ...