Kentucky Made with Pride:
Makers Mark
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When the famous T.W. Samuels family of distilling sold their distillery in the 1950s, a few members of the family wished to continue the business on a smaller scale, emphasizing high-quality production over high-volume production.
The Samuels decided to come up with a new recipe for their bourbon in order to make it smoother, and on February 25, 1954, Bill Samuels Sr., a sixth generation Kentucky distiller, burned his family's 170-year-old bourbon recipe. Marge Samuels (wife of Bill, Sr.), designed the bottle and named the whisky. As a fine pewter collector, she had always searched for the mark of the maker. She was also a collector of bottles of cognac, many of which were sealed in colorful wax. It was these two things that lent themselves to the Makers Mark packaging still used today.
The first bottle of Maker's Mark was dipped, sealed and introduced at $7 a bottle in 1958.
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