These five distillers changed bourbon and opened the door for 2000s-era master distillers, such as Four Roses master distiller Jim Rutledge and Woodford’s Chris Morris, to bring bourbon back to its rightful place, atop the spirits world and in your glass. And although today’s distillers are built in their image, they just don’t make ’em like that anymore. Of these legends, Henderson, Noe, Russell, Beam and Russell sparked the multi-faceted job approach of spokesperson, brand ambassador, historian and distiller. Lee and Maker’s Mark’s Sam Cecil were the 1980s-1990s master distillers who created commercially available single barrels (Lee), small batch (Noe), wrote books (Cecil) and created the whiskey stocks that would be coveted for years to come. The 50 Best Bourbon Whiskeys Of 2021, Ranked Every Winning Bourbon From Our 2021 Taste Tests, Blind Tasted And Re-Ranked The 100 Best Whiskeys Our Head Drinks Writer Tasted In 2021 We Blind. Jim Beam’s Booker Noe, Brown-Forman’s Lincoln Henderson, Heaven Hill’s Parker Beam, Wild Turkey’s Jimmy Russell, Old Fitzgerald’s Edwin Foote, George T. But they were once unknown figures, standing behind fermenters. Today, the master distillers are rock stars.
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