Buffalo Trace

On the Kentucky River in Frankfort, Kentucky. Records indicate that distilling began on the site in 1775 with Hancock Lee and his brother, and the first distillery building went up in 1812.

Edmund H. Taylor Jr. bought it in 1870 and named it the O.F.C. Distillery; it later became the George T. Stagg Distillery. During Prohibition it was allowed to keep operating to make medicinal whiskey. It took its current name in 1999.

Owned by Sazerac since 1992, it makes Buffalo Trace along with Eagle Rare, Blanton's, W.L. Weller and Pappy Van Winkle. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2013.