James Ownby Reserve Review
In this episode. The guys review James Ownby Reserve.
We were lucky enough to be invited to Gatlinburg by Ole Smokey for their release of James Ownby. We have to say. This one really surprised us! Rich vanilla and caramel notes and a long medium finish! Ole Smokey did an amazing job on this whiskey! At $50, it’s a great price point for how good the whiskey is!
Below is a description of James Ownby and history of the name from www.jamesownbyreserve.com
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Charcoal filtered using the Lincoln County Process and aged in American virgin charred oak barrels, James Ownby Reserve Tennessee Straight Bourbon Whiskey is a rich, warm, deep caramel, easy-sipping spirit with a distinctly southern soul.
MOST MEN LIVE LIVES OF QUIET DESPERATION,
but James Ownby was not most men. He lived a life so epic we still tell his tale to this day – usually around a bonfire, and always around a bottle. You see before there was an ‘America’, or a land called ‘Tennessee’, there was man, named James Ownby, who braved the unsettled frontier and forged an enduring family legacy. As a soldier, he was dedicated. Enlisting at the age of 17, and serving 6 tours of duty throughout his esteemed military career, James fearlessly fought for our young country‘s freedom, for his beliefs and for a better way of life. His most notable service came as a member of the renowned ‘Overmountain Men’ regiment under the command of Colonel John Sevier in the Battle of Kings Mountain – a battle which Thomas Jefferson fittingly deemed "the turn of the tide of success."
As a pioneer, he was prolific. James set down roots in the area surrounding the Great Smoky Mountains and built a life for himself and his family. The Ownby’s became known as one of the original five families who significantly settled in the state we now call Tennessee and the acorns from his family tree have become a mighty grove of oaks across the once wild land.
AS A LEGEND, HE LIVES ON.
Today we still point to James Ownby as our family’s founding father, who defended our time-honored traditions by taking a path that certainly was not easy, but the only way he knew to be right. So as we lift our glasses to the man who started it all, we honor his memory by memorializing the man in the following poem. Please use it wisely and pass it on respectfully as you proudly proclaim it from the tops of the Ole Smoky Mountains.