2025 – Blanton’s

Blanton's

Colonel Blanton was a true Kentucky gentleman and bourbon aristocrat. He spent over half a century, and the better part of his life, dedicated to the pursuit of crafting the world’s finest bourbon. A bourbon traditionalist at heart, and as Elmer T. Lee recalled, Colonel Blanton would occasionally bottle one barrel at a time, much the same way as Kentucky’s earliest bourbon pioneers. He would handpick a barrel from the center cut of Warehouse H and bottle its bourbon to entertain friends, family, and dignitaries.