08/29/2026
A familiar name behind a very old bourbon name. 🥃
New to our shelves: Cream of Kentucky Small Batch + Cask Strength, from legendary bourbon maker Jim Rutledge.
Rutledge spent nearly 50 years in the bourbon business, including more than two decades as Master Distiller at Four Roses, where he helped bring the brand back to the American market. Retirement apparently didn’t stick.
He later helped revive Cream of Kentucky, a historic bourbon label dating back to 1888 that became one of the country’s leading bourbons in the 1930s and ’40s, even featuring artwork by Norman Rockwell in its advertising.
Now it’s back for another chapter, and both the 100-proof Small Batch and Cask Strength have landed at the Frisco.
Come by and take home a little piece of bourbon history.
