Kentucky’s Old Taylor Distillery Becomes Castle & Key

Castle & Key is undertaking, being led by Will Arvin, Wesley Murry and master distiller Marianne Barnes, is a painstaking resurrection of an 83 acre site which includes, among other things, a massive limestone castle and surrounding grounds geared towards tourism. While this might seem daunting for most, the young trio seems unfazed by the challenge.

who spoke with us in an interview last year, said at the time she was actually “working with a 1917 sample of Taylor’s bourbon to get” at the strain she hopes to make into a new bourbon. It is through innovation like this, the Castle & Key team likely hopes, will once again put this facility and its whiskey on the minds of tourists and drinkers alike.