Stitzel-Weller Distillery To Reopen(!)

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Joe Riley just brought this item to my attention. Diageo rumored to be restarting the historic Stitzel-Weller distillery.

http://www.whiskyadvocateblog.com/2013/01/13/stitzel-weller-distillery-to-start-making-bourbon-again/

The Straightbourbon forum is already alight with speculation. Personally, I'm intrigued by the statement that Diageo is still sitting on stocks of mature bourbon from before the plant was shuttered nearly 21 years ago.

What the product will taste like, and how it will be marketed, remains to be seen. This plant produced the legendary Fitzgerald bourbons, but those recipes and brands, along with the contributions of the master distillers, continue elsewhere under the ownership of Buffalo Trace (Weller, and Fitz) and Julian Van Winkle (Van Winkle). Bourbon being greater than the sum of its parts, it's hard to imagine all of the components ever being reunited.