LOUISVILLE, Ky. (April 16, 2019) – – – Louisville-based Copper & Kings American Brandy Co. is celebrating its fifth anniversary with A Song For You, a Limited Release American Brandy matured in Kentucky bourbon whiskey barrels for five years.

“Five years ago, we launched ourselves off a cliff with the folly that is an American Brandy distillery in Bourbon Country,” says Copper & Kings founder, Joe Heron. “We are enjoying our time on the dance floor, painting with different colors, and we, like a wild goose, have managed to take off. This is a celebration of survival as much as anything, and a thank you to anyone who ever bought a bottle of Copper & Kings American Brandy, and to everyone that’s worked at Copper & Kings with pride, energy and natural enthusiasm. This is our song for you.”

The American Brandy Limited Release is the original sourced “DNA1” blend of pure copper pot-distilled brandy that helped launch Copper & Kings in 2014. Bottled at 50% alcohol by volume, the youngest eau de vie in the blend is now, after five years, 8-years-old, and the oldest is 18, with most being 12 and 13-years-old. The varietal blend is predominantly Muscat de Alexandrie, Chenin Blanc and French Colombard, with additional layering of Thompson and other varietals. At the time, the brandies were sourced from seven states across the USA.

Master Distiller Brandon O’Daniel is appreciative – “We were so fortunate to have some very fine distillers share their aged stocks of pot-distilled brandy with us when we started, and this helped us build a foundation of our own definitive American Brandy as we distilled our own distillate for maturation. After five years in Kentucky bourbon barrels, we have a great illustration of our style – confident, rich and bold, a feisty rambunctious mid-palate reminiscent of fine whiskey, and a lingering smooth brandy finish. A Song For You is rich, velvety, with a silky skirt that wraps inside your glass. It sits in the sweet spot between a fruit forward brandy and a super-smooth, long finishing whiskey. With our own distillate now being bottled, we are up to “DNA9” – but everything was built on the shoulders of this original DNA1, history in a glass.”

Copper & Kings creative director, Ron Jasin says, “The label design is elegant and sophisticated, with a hint of the signature quirk and rebelliousness that is Copper & Kings. We wanted luxury foiling and embossing to reward the drinker, and to reflect the sumptuousness of the liquid. This feels really, really special. To us it does, anyway.”

Available across Copper & Kings at the distillery and at select fine retailers in the USA.

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Copper & Kings American Brandy, American Gin, Absinthe and Destillaré liqueurs are double-distilled exclusively in copper pot stills, and are non-chill filtered and unadulterated. The full portfolio of fine distilled spirits includes:

Copper & Kings American Craft Brandy (90 proof/45% ABV) – $35/750 mL
Copper & Kings American Butchertown Brandy (124 proof/62% ABV) – $60/750 mL
Copper & Kings Floodwall Apple Brandy (90 proof/45% ABV) – $40/750 mL
Copper & Kings CR&FTWERKBeer Barrel Aged Brandy (111 proof/55.5% ABV) – $40/750 mL
Copper & Kings Immature Brandy (90 proof/45% ABV) – $30/ 750 mL

Copper & Kings, The History Of Lovers, Distilled Rose Gin (90 proof/45% ABV)$35/750mL
Copper & Kings, The Ninth, Distilled Orange Gin Finished in Destillaré Orange Curaçao Barrels (90 proof/45% ABV)- $35 / 750mL
Copper & Kings American Dry Gin(92 proof/46% ABV) – $35 / 750mL
Copper & Kings American Old Tom Gin(100 proof/50% ABV)- $35 / 750mL
Copper & Kings The Moons Of Juniper Gin(96 proof/48% ABV) – $35 / 750mL

Copper & Kings Absinthe Blanche (130 proof/65% ABV) – $55/750 mL
Copper & Kings Barrel Finished Absinthe (130 proof/65% ABV) – $55/750 mL

Destillaré Intense Orange Curaçao (90 proof/45% ABV) – $35/750 mL
Destillaré Intense Pomegranate (90 proof/45% ABV) – $35/750 mL

Copper & Kings American Brandy Co. distribution footprint includes the following markets: Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Washington D.C.

About Copper & Kings American Brandy Co.:
Copper & Kings uses small batch copper pot-distillation to forge untraditional, non-derivative, pure pot-distilled American apple and grape brandies, absinthe, gin and Destillaré liqueurs that are non-chill filtered with no added sugar, colors, artificial flavors, or synthetic chemicals. The state-of-the-art distillery exclusively focuses on the distillation of brandy-based spirits. Copper & Kings, located at 1121 E. Washington St. in Butchertown, is owned by beverage entrepreneurs Joe and Lesley Heron. For more information, visit www.copperandkings.com or follow @CopperAndKings on Facebook and Twitter.

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