Michter's
Premium Kentucky bourbon and rye with collector demand, sold on a lineage dating to 1753 Pennsylvania.
Status: Watchlist
- Founded
- 1990s
- Website
- michters.com
- HQ
- USA
- Manufacturing
- USA
- Ownership type
- Family-owned
- Parent
- Chatham Imports (Magliocco family)
- Acquired
- 1990s
- Status since
- 2026-10-30
Ownership
Chatham Imports, a New York spirits company run by the Magliocco family, filed for the abandoned Michter's trademark after the Pennsylvania distillery closed in 1989 to 1990 and revived the name in Kentucky.
Why Watchlist
Michter's site carries the banner "PROUD HERITAGE FROM 1753". Its own legacy page says the Pennsylvania distillery's owners declared bankruptcy and abandoned the premises in 1989, and that the current owners filed for the abandoned trademark. Whisky Advocate reports the revived company relied on sourced and then contract-distilled whiskey, and stopped sourcing in 2015 after its Shively, Kentucky still came online.
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