Russell's Reserve 10 Year Old Bourbon Whiskey

At the end of the American Civil War, the Ripy Brothers returned to their native state of Kentucky and opened a distillery on the slopes of a hill in Lawrenceburg. Following the repeal of Prohibition, distillery executive Thomas McCarthy took some samples of maturing bourbon from the distillery's rickhouse on a hunting trip with a group of friends. The following year, his friends asked him to bring "some of that wild turkey whiskey," and the distillery was renamed Wild Turkey.Since 1954, Wild Turkey Distillery has been operating under the tutelage of Master Distiller Jimmy Russell. "I've never been drunk," says Russell, who is a genuine bourbon aristocrat and a living legend in the business, "but I love my work. People tell me, "I hate to get up and go to work,' he says. "I go seven days a week. You know, on Saturdays and Sundays I may go out there and sit around for an hour or so."Russell's Reserve 10 Year Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey is made in Kentucky using a generations-o