Wood from Pappy Van Winkle bourbon barrel staves

Wooden Bourbon Barrel Stave Blanks! Blanks are 3/4" x 3/4" minimum Oversized Blanks are 7/8” x 7/8" Ring Blanks are 1-1/4"sq by 3/4" Knife Scales Pair 1-1/4" x 7/8 x 5" All blanks will come with one COA per blank. COAs are 4" x 6" card stock with silver foil embossed COA seal. All blanks are cut as they are ordered. In 1893, an 18-year-old Julian "Pappy" Van Winkle Sr. began working as a salesman for the liquor wholesaler, W.L. Weller & Sons. Fifteen years later, he and another Weller salesman bought the firm. In 1910 they acquired the Stitzel Distillery in Louisville, KY, a sour mash whiskey distillery since 1872. The Stitzel Distillery supplied much of the whiskey sold by the Weller wholesale firm. The consolidation coincided with prohibition, during which time the Stitzel-Weller firm was licensed by the government to produce whiskey for medicinal purposes. One of their labels that was introduced on the market just before prohibition was Old Rip Van Winkle. After prohibition, the brand was not reintroduced until after 1972 when the Stitzel-Weller distillery and its current brand names W. L. Weller, Old Fitzgerald, Rebel Yell, and Cabin Still were sold to other companies. The only brand name the Van Winkle family had kept the rights to is the pre-prohibition brand Old Rip Van Winkle. Since 2002, the Van Winkle brands have been distilled and bottled by the Sazerac Company at the Buffalo Trace Distillery as a joint venture with the Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery company. Like all modern bourbons, Van Winkle bourbons are made primarily from corn and aged in charred new American oak barrels. A distinguishing feature of Van Winkle bourbons is their use of wheat as the secondary ingredient instead of the usual rye, and their additional inclusion of barley malt. Pappy Van Winkle bourbons are aged for 15, 20, or 23 years, which is considerably longer than the aging period for most bourbons. This certificate does not imply any affiliation or association with the trademarked Pappy Van Winkle, Sazerac Company, or Buffalo Trace Distillery companies as they are not involved with the distribution of this material or the production of the finished item.