Distillery
George Dickel
George Dickel started out as a wholesale liquor merchant in Nashville, Tennessee, in the 1850s. By the 1870s his company was selling whisky made at Cascade Hollow, near Normandy. Prohibition shut the operation down, and it did not reopen at Cascade Hollow until 1958. What makes George Dickel distinctive is the mellowing step. Before charcoal filtering, the new whisky is chilled to 40 degrees, a step most Tennessee distillers skip. It then filters slowly through deep vats of sugar maple charcoal for several days before going into the barrel. Dickel also insisted on spelling it "whisky," dropping the e, because he believed his product matched the best Scotch whiskies. Diageo owns the brand today, and the whisky is still made at Cascade Hollow, near Tullahoma, in Coffee County.
