LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A Kentucky bourbon whiskey maker planted 2,000 trees for Earth Day.
Maker's Mark Distillery and University of Kentucky forestry researchers planted 2,000 white-oak seedlings at Star Hill Farm in Loretto, which is the home of the distillery.
According to a news release Monday, it's the site of the world's largest white-oak tree research repository with 24 acres of about 10,000 young trees of more than 400 varieties of white oak. The research project is designed to last for generations.
"Bourbon is nature distilled," Rob Samuels, managing director of Maker’s Mark and eighth-generation distiller, said in a news release. "So, it’s incumbent upon us to protect the environment that gives us the ingredients for Bourbon. That’s what this project is about – gaining more knowledge of white oaks so that all of us in the bourbon industry can work better with nature now and into the future."
Newly charred white-oak barrels are part of the aging process of bourbon.
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