Barton Distillery In Kentucky Expanding
By bbqandbourbon on May 1, 2009 in Featured, Kentucky Bourbon
The Barton distillery is getting a $22,000,000 investment that will create new jobs across the state and upgrade distilling and bottling operations in Frankfort and Owensboro.
Distiller Sazerac North America makes Buffalo Trace, Very Old Barton and Ridgemont Reserve.
Kentucky helped by kicking in tax incentives up to $3.25 million. Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort and Sazerac North America in Owensboro, a bottling facility, were approved for tax breaks.
Sazerac plans to add 300,000 square feet to the Owensboro plant at an estimated cost of $10.5 million. That expansion will require approximately $8.25 million in new equipment. As a result, Sazerac will add 50 jobs to the 188 workers already there.
Buffalo Trace would undergo a $9 million expansion, resulting in 39 jobs added to a 270-person work force.
Sazerac’s more affordable brands, including Charter and Ancient Age are enjoying sales growth as more people drink at home instead of restaurants amid the worst recession in decades, Pape said.
“We are looking to expand,” said CFO Paul Pape, who left Brown-Forman two years ago for Sazerac. “When people consume, they are looking for more standard brands.”
“The addition of Sazerac would help enrich Louisville’s position as the urban gateway to bourbon country,” said Joe Reagan, president of Greater Louisville Inc.
Even in a tough economy, Sazerac says the demand for bourbon is still strong and growing
“Everything we’re making, we’re selling,” said Angela Traver of Sazerac. “That’s the thing about bourbon, you just can’t make it quick enough when people are demanding it.”
This expansion is a welcome surprise after concerns of layoffs and downsizing at this plant.
Hello, my name is Rosel and I am an American retired in Mexico. I love Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey and had no idea how “Scotch” oriented Mexicans are. I finally found Kentucky Supreme from Bardstown, Kentucky in a European Liquor Store. I love it so much, and if you are the Distiller of that Whiskey, hats off, it’s great.
Just wanted you to know. Jack Daniels can be had more readily but I never liked it.
Hope you are the ones distilling it, keep doing it, you have a customer for life…
Regards,
Rosel Rangel
rosel | Jul 28, 2011 | Reply
I want to apply a application to your company in Nelson County what website do I get on to apply. Thank you and hope to be able to apply to this company
Tonia Brien | Nov 19, 2011 | Reply
We just bought the di Amore ameretto gift set with two small glasses – did you really mean to have them with half bubble like bottoms so they would not stand flat upright. As such if one fills them too much, the spill over
ASK
Alan S. Kaplan M.D. | Dec 2, 2011 | Reply
After drinking ten high for over 17 years I will drink no more …I would have paid more for this fine sour mash but will never drink grain alcohol have you no respect for your own product or your customers………whoever thought of the blend idea should be fired…….signed gregg gooding a customer no more
gregg gooding | Jan 1, 2012 | Reply
drink old bart feel like barking until the monster is to strong and he says lay down and lick your nuts.
crag tomm | Mar 19, 2012 | Reply
mason pappy, your herbie the love bug says i did not say dog in my comment, well i say that your mammy and your grand mammy are men mason daddy and herbie is a punk ass catholic big mouth sucking a nun’s elbow and shoulder. yeh i go thru this over a word.
crag tomm | Mar 19, 2012 | Reply