Wild Turkey
Wild Turkey traces its modern brand history to 1940, when Austin Nichols executive Thomas McCarthy took warehouse samples on a wild turkey hunting trip and the name became attached to the bourbon his friends kept requesting. The Lawrenceburg distillery behind the whiskey has deeper roots in Kentucky distilling, including the Ripy family’s 19th-century distillery at Tyrone, before Austin Nichols acquired the site in 1971.
Wild Turkey traces its modern brand history to 1940, when Austin Nichols executive Thomas McCarthy took warehouse samples on a wild turkey hunting trip and the name became attached to the bourbon his friends kept requesting. The Lawrenceburg distillery behind the whiskey has deeper roots in Kentucky distilling, including the Ripy family’s 19th-century distillery at Tyrone, before Austin Nichols acquired the site in 1971.
