A just-filled bottle of Blanton’s Single Barrel bourbon awaits its hand-affixed labels. Elmer T. Lee, former plant manager at Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, is credited with starting the single-barrel bourbon market when he began producing Blanton’s in 1984. Photo by Tom Eblen | Staff
Tom Eblen is a columnist for the Lexington Herald-Leader who writes about life, people and issues in Kentucky. A Lexington native, he was the Herald-Leader's managing editor from 1998 to 2008. Before coming home in 1998, he was a reporter and editor for the Atlanta Journal- Constitution and Associated Press.
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