Buffalo, Barrels, & Bourbon by F. Paul Pacult

Author:F. Paul Pacult [Pacult, F. Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781119599920
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2021-07-26T00:00:00+00:00

In the November 1952 edition of the company newspaper, the Schenley News, Lewis Rosenstiel's testimonial to his long-time employee Albert Blanton, titled, “Tribute to Col. Albert B. Blanton on the occasion of retirement dinner … At Geo. T. Stagg clubhouse, Frankfort, Kentucky, November 14, 1952” was printed. In the tribute, Rosenstiel's admiration after more than 27 years of friendship is evident. After reading it, one has to believe that it must have been a powerful moment to experience in person. Said Rosenstiel in part, “I have come here tonight to pay homage and respect to a great man, a true friend, and one who has been an inspiration to me … Albert is the very essence of kindness to everyone – even his enemies; he may be blunt, and sometimes, though rarely, I have seen him quite angry; but he has never been unkind and he has never for an instant lost that fine spirit of reserve, which is so truly wonderful … He has always been Mr. Kentucky to me, a bluegrass gentlemen in every sense of the word.”9

At the conclusion of his tribute, Rosenstiel announced to Albert and Vannie Blanton that he had put forth a resolution to the Schenley board of directors that the George T. Stagg Distillery would be renamed the Albert B. Blanton Distillery. The resolution passed by a unanimous vote. But while the distillery name was officially changed, it was still referred to within the industry either as the George T. Stagg Distillery or the Leestown Distillery until it became Buffalo Trace Distillery in 1999.

As were the footprints left by his predecessors E.H. Taylor, Jr. and George T. Stagg, Albert Blanton's legacy as one of the most esteemed Kentucky whiskey men indelibly linked to the Leestown distilleries would be commemorated in the coming decades by one of his successors, master distiller Elmer T. Lee. And Lee's liquid memorial to Blanton would, unbeknownst to Lee, usher in the second Golden Age of Bourbon.

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