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NBA Legend Scottie Pippen Launches His Own Bourbon

NBA legend and entrepreneur Scottie Pippen recently teamed up with wine and spirits maker Dave Phinney to launch DIGITS, a five-year-old bourbon exclusively in Chicago.

The Hall of Famer is a retired 6-time NBA Champion and 2-time Olympic gold medalist. For his first endeavor into the whiskey industry, he tapped Phinney’s award-winning Savage & Cooke distillery to oversee the development of the five-year-old bourbon. DIGITS is a 46% ABV (92-proof) whiskey, aged for 5 years and blended by Savage & Cooke Master Distiller Jordan Via.

“Savage & Cooke, since its inception, has been a place of discovery and home to making opportunities for great spirits to come to life,” Phinney said in a prepared statement. “Little did I know I would have an opportunity to add one of the greatest basketball players of all time in Scottie Pippen, to the Savage & Cooke roster, whose drive for another great moment would include us coming together to make what is a beautiful and championship level bourbon in DIGITS.”

DIGITS Bourbon
DIGITS Bourbon (image via Savage & Cooke)

Savage & Cooke is located on Mare Island, near the city of Vallejo, California. The distillery currently produces Second Glance American Whiskey, The Burning Chair Bourbon, Lip Service Rye, and Bad Sweater Whiskey. The first three from this list have seen some time aging in Phinney’s wine casks from winery projects he has been associated with.

“Chicago has meant so much to me, the experience and equally as important the people that inspired me and cheered me on, I wanted to toast with them first and foremost,” Pippen said. “My partnership with Dave Phinney has been remarkable from the start and I believe we have created a superb bourbon. We wanted DIGITS to be more than a bourbon, we wanted it to be a reminder of who we are individually and how we came together to create this bottle. I’ve always celebrated with bourbon, now getting to celebrate with my own is something very special to me.”

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