Description
Full color 9 3/4″ x 13 1/2″ ad for Old Taylor Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. The picture, that takes up the top 60% of the ad, is supposed to be of a distillery. The caption for this picture says that “Our distillery is a conversation piece. But our Bourbon speaks for itself”. The ad claims that “From the inside, our distillery looks like a distillery. From the outside, it looks like a castle. Col. Taylor built it like that back in 1887. And ever since, it’s kept us on our toes. Because when you make Bourbon in a castle, it’s got to be some Bourbon. Old Taylor is just that. And we want to keep it that way. So we still draw our limestone water from the same spring the Colonel discovered in 1887. We still tend our mash every bit as tenderly as he did. We still use the same costly small grains he insisted upon. And we must be doing our job well. More people drink Old Taylor than any other premium-priced Bourbon in the country. Sure, a castle is an extraordinary place to make Bourbon. But then there’s nothing ordinary about our Bourbon”.
Source: April 14, 1967 Life magazine.
