FROM A BAR STOOL IN BUDAPEST
TO THE WORLD’S FINEST CRAFT BOURBON
TO THE WORLD’S FINEST CRAFT BOURBON
People often ask, how did BlackFork Farms get into making whiskey?
It all began, on a bar stool in Budapest. Gordon was bicycling through Europe. His group ended the day in Budapest, Hungary, with plans to meet in the lobby of the Four Season Hotel at 6:00 pm, then walk to dinner. Gordon got his shower and arrived in the lobby at 5:30, so he grabbed a stool in the hotel bar and asked the bartender what he had for nice whiskies. The bartender, dressed in his “penguin style” uniform, sat a 350ml bottle of craft bourbon on the bar and proceeded to explain how the bourbon was made on a farm in Vermont, from grains they grow. And how the bourbon was an expression of these unique flavors.
Gordon looked at the $100 dollar bottle of bourbon siting the bar, tasted it, and said to himself – we grow unique grains on our farm – we can do this! What a fun way to share the flavors of our farm with the world!
(photo by Gordon)