Wild Turkey 81 is Eddie Russell's first solo project. After making Russell's Reserve bottlings with his dad and, sure enough, some other Wild Turkeys, his first own bourbon is designed specifically for cocktails. These are the needs and signs of the times.

He has filled the classic Wild Turkey high-rye mash whiskeys in hand picked American oak barrels from the Ozark Mountains, who have experienced an "alligator char," also known as "# 4 char". The Ardbeg alligator sends his regards. Then the barrels were filled in the distillery in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. The Wild Turkey 81 is so far the only bourbon of its category, which experiences the expensive deep char procedure. The filled barrels came in wood-rack warehouses without heating or air conditioning. The finished 81 contains a blend of whiskeys between 6-8 years of age. This makes him the "longest-aged bourbon or Tennessee whiskey in his class." Does Campari say ... why is that so important?
Eddie Russel "Mother Nature's got her all over this brand. This is a more balanced whiskey. "We like to do the old fashioned way around here.
Eddie Russell's Wild Turkey 81 was created with the ulterior motive of bartenders and cocktail amateurs.
Campari also needs to increase sales as a $ 50 million expansion was inaugurated in the presence of Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear and Lawrenceburg Mayor Edwinna Baker. The capacity of the new distillery now stands at 11 million gallons a year, which sounds even more impressive in liters. Anyhow, it is more than twice as much as before.
This expansion was planned by the previous owner, but delayed by the change of ownership to Camparie by two years. The new beer still and doubler are just as big as the old ones, but the larger capacity com of more and larger mash cookers and fermenters. The stills may not be bigger, but they will have far less rest than before.