Tennessee to pour 100 year old Jack Daniel’s down the drain
Here’s a sobering thought: Hundreds of bottles of Jack Daniel’s whiskey, some of it almost 100 years old, may be unceremoniously poured down a drain because authorities suspect it was being sold by someone without a license.
Officials seized 2,400 bottles late last month during warehouse raids in Nashville and Lynchburg, the southern Tennessee town where the whiskey is distilled.
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Tennessee law requires officials to destroy whiskey that cannot be sold legally in the state, such as bottles designed for sale overseas and those with broken seals.
“We’d pour it out,” said Danielle Elks, executive director of the Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission.
The estimated value of the liquor is $1 million, possibly driven up by the value of the antique bottles, which range from 3-liter bottles to half-pints.
I don’t follow Tennessee politics closely, but I would imagine it is like politics in Alabama and all over the country in one regard: lots of politicians whine about not taking enough taxes out of people’s pockets. For one of those governments to then destroy $1 million of anything – let alone fine aged whiskey – rather than sell it and put the proceeds into government coffers defies logic.
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