Castle & Key

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Founded

2016

Region

Kentucky, USA

Status

Operational

Company

Peristyle

Production type

Bourbon whiskey

Former name

Old Taylor

Castle & Key is a modern American spirits producer, housed within the walls of the historic Old Taylor distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky. It was originally built by Edmund Haynes Taylor Jr in 1887 and featured a faux-castle and sunken gardens on-site, and is considered the birthplace of bourbon tourism. It was closed in 1972 and fell into disrepair, eventually being acquired by Peristyle LLC in 2014, who restored it and re-opened it as Castle & Key in 2016.

The distillery produces a range of spirits in addition to its eponymous bourbon brand, including Restoration rye whiskey, Sacred Spring vodka and a number of different gins.

While the Castle & Key name had been present on several of its other spirits bottlings in the years prior, the flagship whiskey brand that it formally gives its name to was introduced in 2022 with the release of its first two batches of Kentucky straight bourbon. They were released in March and May that year and both were vattings of around 80 barrels of its 4-year-old spirit.

Two batches of its first wheated bourbon followed later that year.

Peristyle

2014-present

Castle & Key Distillery
4445 McCracken Pike
Frankfort
KY 40601
USA

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