For seven decades, Maker’s Mark has produced whisky in its iconic red wax bottle, a recipe Margie and Bill Samuels Sr, settled on in 1953 after famously burning the family’s 170-year-old whiskey ledger. The Loretto, Kentucky, distillery had never strayed from it until last year. Star Hill Farm Whisky, named after the land the distillery sits on, arrived in 2025 as Maker’s Mark’s first new mash bill since the Eisenhower administration and its fir…
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