What does a jacket have to do with bourbon? Quite a bit in this case. The bourbon in question is Legent, a whiskey made in the US under the watchful eyes of Fred Noe, seventh-generation master distiller at Jim Beam and Shinji Fukuyo, Suntory’s fifth-ever chief blender.
If you know a little about different whiskeys from different regions, you know that bourbon-making is all about playing within the boundaries of the US Federal Standards of Identity for Distilled Spirits—switching up the secondary grain in the mash, adjusting the char levels and time spent in new oak casks, and so on. Japanese whiskey pays exacting attention to blending. So when these two guys got together, they created a beautifully blended bourbon in an East-meets-West expression.
Then there’s the jacket. An update of Todd Snynder’s Dylan Jacket, this special edition is sewn in the US from a whiskey-hued Japanese denim woven on old shuttle looms in Okayama. Sold together by reserve bar it’s a good-looking way to enjoy some great-tasting whiskey.
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