<div>Bourbon News & Notes: Ross & Squibb’s advent; Wyoming Whiskey Single Barrel; and a Better Boy at Seviche</div>
BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – for 22 October, by Susan Reigler MGP is Now Ross & Squibb Distillery (Sort Of) Earlier this year Luxco of St. Louis, which owns Lux Row in Bardstown where bourbons including Ezra Brooks and David Nicholson are produced, was part of a merger and acquisition with MGP of Lawrenceburg, Indiana. MGP is a contract and sourced distilling giant, but it was also releasing two brands of its own, George Remus Straight Bourbon Whiskey and Rossville Union Straight Rye Whiskey. Now those two brands have become part of the Luxco portfolio, and the label will read Ross & Squibb Distillery. (Same place. Different name.) The name is derived from two historic Lawrenceburg distilleries, one founded by George Ross in 1847 and the Squibb Distillery founded in 1869. The latter was purchased in 1921 by gangster/bootlegger George Remus. MGP will continue producing bourbon, rye, gin, and grain neutral spirits for its...Read more