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In 2002, Julian Van Winkle III approached Joe Magliocco about a new development to their business relationship – he had just signed an agreement with Buffalo Trace to continue his famous Pappy Van Winkle line at their distillery in Frankfort. That meant he would be closing up shop at the Old Commonwealth Distillery (previously known as the Hoffman Distillery) where he had been hand-bottling barrels of bourbon for Joe’s newly resurrected brand Michter’s. But Julian wasn’t going to leave Joe in a tight spot; he introduced him to Even Kulsveen over at Kentucky Bourbon Distillers (KBD aka modern day Willett) who agreed to continue selling him barrels as well as bottle them up…