Battle of the Blanton’s: Buyer Beware!

Imagine being told, “Son we’re not hiring any hands today,” at your job interview and then 35 years later honoring the same man that turned you down by naming the world’s first single barrel bourbon after him. That man was Albert B. Blanton and the young man he told to take a hike in 1949 was Elmer T. Lee. In 1984, Lee launched the now-legendary Blanton’s Single Barrel Bourbon by...