1792 Ridgewood/Ridgemont Reserve

[sharkman]

I have a question I'm sure you guys can answer.
I have a bottle of Ridgewood Reserve 1792 Barrel Select
AND a bottle of Ridgemont Reserve 1792 Barrel Select. What is the difference? I got them less than a year apart. The bottles are shaped the same, but the name and printing layout is different. Where is this from (which distillery) and why the change?It's an 8 year small batch 93.7 proof and it's okay. Very straight forward and not to complex, but a good drink.
Anybody have insight?

Barry

[RedVette]

As I understand it (and I may be way off base here) is that Woodford (Brown and Foreman) sued Ridgewood (Barton) for trademark infringement saying that the consumer would be confused, by the name and bottle shape being too close to Woodford. Woodford won, and Ridgewood was changed to Ridgemont so that us stupid consumers would not be confused anymore. Your Ridgewood is now something of a collectors item.

[sharkman]

Crap... maybe I shouldn't have been drinking it then, huh?

Barry

[TNbourbon]

Several bottles have sold on Ebay for $80-$120 -- generally, shortly after the court decision was handed down and it was in the news.
Barton claims the whiskey in the bottle is the same by either name. I've only had the Ridge'wood' myself, which I opened before it became a collector's item, so can't speak to any similarities or differences. I thought is was very good, the best Barton offers.

[ProofPositive]

In the same old store where I have been finding some dusty bottles of late, I found a Ridgewood Reserve tonight for $24.99. It was the only one with a Ridgemont on the shelf behind it. I had been going in & out of there for weeks and never saw it up there on the top shelf. I will have to get a keener eye when rumaging through there from now on. Sure wish there had been more than 1....but, I'll take what I can get.

[ProofPositive]

Anybody know how much the Ridgewood is bringing on the open market these days?

[gr8erdane]

Dunno, but the one bottle sitting on the top shelf behind the counter of the store up the street with a 75 dollar price tag probably won't go anywhere soon. The owners also have a couple of the EW Millenium globes asking around 60. I'm afraid I created a monster when I picked up a Hirsh 20 for a fellow board member and paid their inflated price for it.