Description
Virgin Bourbon was initially produced at the Meadowlawn Distilling Co. which operated out of the Old Boone Distillery in Jefferson County but after a fire in 1971 the distillery closed and production was relocated to the Heaven Hill distillery (DSP-KY-31) in Bardstown. Fate hit the Heaven Hill distillery again as it burned down as well on November 7, 1996.
The company survived the next several years through the provision of production capacity by its fellow local bourbon labels, Brown-Forman and Jim Beam, until its purchase and adaptation of the Bernheim distillery in Louisville (registered plant DSP-KY-1) from Diageo in 1999. While fermenting, mashing, and distilling occurs at the new distillery, aging, bottling, and shipping still occur in Bardstown.