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Woodford Reserve is a brand of premium small batch Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey produced by the Brown-Forman Corporation. It is made from a mixture of pot still spirits distilled at the company's Woodford Reserve Distillery in Woodford County, in north-central Kentucky, and column still spirits from the Brown Forman Distillery in Shively, Kentucky.〔http://www.drinkspirits.com/bourbon/scenes-woodford-reserve/ Retrieved December 24, 2014〕 Each bottle is numbered with a batch number and bottle number. Woodford Reserve's alcohol content is 45.2% alcohol by volume (90.4 US Proof). ==History== The Woodford Reserve Distillery, formerly known as the Old Oscar Pepper Distillery and later the Labrot & Graham Distillery, is approximately eight miles from the town of Versailles off U.S. Route 60, between Interstate 64 and Versailles. Distilling on the site began in 1780 and the distillery building itself was erected in 1838, making it the oldest of the nine bourbon distilleries in current operation in Kentucky as of 2010—although the site has not been continuously operational as a distillery during that history. In 1995 the distillery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and in 2000 it was designated a National Historic Landmark. Originally established by Elijah Pepper, the distillery was passed on to his son and was known as the Oscar Pepper Distillery when Dr. James Crow worked there in the mid-19th century. During this time Dr. Crow went about a series of activities that improved and codified the understanding of, and quality of, key bourbon-making processes such as sour-mash fermentation, pot still distillation and barrel maturation. The Pepper family sold the property to Leopold Labrot and James Graham in 1878, who owned and operated it (except during Prohibition) until 1941 when it was sold to the Brown-Forman Corporation. B-F operated it until 1968 and then sold the then-mothballed property in 1971. Brown-Forman re-purchased the property in 1993 and refurbished it to bring it back into operation. The Woodford Reserve brand was introduced to the market in 1996. After 16 years on the market, the first permanent line extension of the brand came in February 2012 as Woodford released Woodford Reserve Double Oaked Bourbon. Woodford Reserve Double Oaked starts with a fully aged Woodford Reserve at an average age of around 7 years old. This Woodford is then dumped into deeply toasted and lightly charred barrels specially created by Brown-Forman's own cooperage to age the Bourbon for about another year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BourbonBlog.com Interview with Chris Morris and Review of Woodford Reserve Double Oaked )〕 Among the expressions of bottlings branded as Woodford Reserve are two variations, one being the parent brand and the other called the ''Masters Collection.'' The Master's Collection is a series of limited-quantity bottlings which are produced using the older pot still distillation method rather than modern column still technology.〔(Pot Stills Versus Column Stills ), ''The Chuck Cowdery Blog: American Whiskey & Other Stuff'', February 26, 2008. (Access date March 3, 2011.)〕 Woodford Reserve is currently aging rye whiskey for a new Woodford Reserve Rye Whiskey as a permanent line extension with an expected release date in 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Woodford Reserve」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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