We took a tour of Heaven's Door's distillery. Shot and edited by: Philip Spinner and Dean Bushala
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00:02 - My name is Mark Bouchalla.
00:05 I'm president and CEO of Heaven's Door Spirits.
00:08 We partnered with Bob Dylan
00:10 and created a brand with him called Heaven's Door.
00:13 I was amazed to learn that he was a painter and a sculptor.
00:16 So what got us really excited was looking at his visual art
00:19 and in conversations with Bob that kind of evolved
00:22 into having whiskeys that told stories in their own way.
00:28 We concluded a deal recently where we acquired a distillery
00:32 in a town called Pleasureville, Kentucky.
00:34 It's on the Bourbon Trail between Lexington and Louisville.
00:38 And this is like part American history tour,
00:41 part craft distillery.
00:42 It's absolutely stunning.
00:44 - I'm Ken Pierce, master distiller here
00:51 at Heaven's Door Distillery
00:52 in beautiful Pleasureville, Kentucky.
00:54 This we have is the Heaven's Door Bourbon.
00:57 Very soon we'll have the Kentucky straight version of this
01:00 to compliment and add to the straight bourbon whiskey
01:04 that has been made for Heaven's Door in Tennessee for years.
01:08 You have to look at it, it's like anything else,
01:10 quality in, quality out.
01:11 And so we source only the highest quality ingredients
01:15 as our starting point.
01:16 One of the most important things is your grains
01:19 and we are actually sourcing them from locally grown corn.
01:23 Kentucky is known for two signature industries
01:26 and it's bourbon and it's horses.
01:29 And what's the common thread there?
01:31 It's the water.
01:32 And so that's why this beautiful limestone water
01:35 that we have here makes wonderful bourbon
01:38 and also makes strong horses.
01:40 As far as I know, no one else draws water
01:43 from their own site from a deep well.
01:46 The future is wide open and I look forward to build on
01:54 what we have done here so far.
01:56 Bob definitely establishes a high standard for himself
01:59 in his music and his artwork
02:01 and I know he'd be very happy with the product
02:05 that has his name on it.
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