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Blade & Bow
Diageo's bourbon tribute to the old Stitzel-Weller distillery.
- Founded
- 2015
- Based in
- Louisville, Kentucky
Making it since
2015
Their story
Blade and Bow is a Kentucky bourbon from Diageo, released in 2015 after about three years of development. It is tied to the historic Stitzel-Weller distillery in Louisville, which closed in 1992 and where the whiskey is now aged.
The name comes from the parts of a key: the blade is the long shaft and the bow is the decorative handle. It nods to the five keys once used as a symbol at Stitzel-Weller, standing for the five steps of making bourbon.
How it's made
The core bourbon is blended using a five-barrel solera, a fractional method borrowed from sherry and port, with the last barrel holding some whiskey distilled at Stitzel-Weller in the early 1990s. New whiskey of at least six years old enters the first barrel and moves through the series over time.
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Why we carry them
We like Blade and Bow as a soft, approachable bourbon with a good story behind the name. It makes an easy gift for a bourbon fan.
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