Maker’s Mark Bourbon Whisky

Craft whiskeys are not exactly anything new. Another small-batch craft spirit on the market? Yawn. In such a competitive market, it takes something rather special for such a whisky to stand out from the crowd, and Maker’s Mark has quite clearly, absolutely nailed it.

Distilling the small-batch whisky had been a favored pastime of the Samuels family for centuries, moving their craft from Scotland to Pennsylvania, and finally to the bourbon capital of America: Kentucky.

If Kentucky is the beating heart of American whiskey production, Maker’s Mark is the blood that’s pumped through its ventricles. Maker’s Mark bourbon is lovingly distilled in those ever-popular handmade small batches, in the fittingly small town of Loretto, in the north of the state.

Today, Maker’s Mark is a hugely popular spirit, adored for its sweet vanilla, caramel undertones, which are a product of a unique recipe.

No, it’s not just the rustic, totally vintage vibe of the wax-dipped bottle decor that makes Maker’s Mark so appealing– it’s the whisky’s inherent sweetness that makes it so deliciously palatable. But, it wasn’t always that way.