The Mattingly name was once one of the biggest in the Kentucky bourbon industry, and today it’s making a comeback. The J Mattingly 1845 Distillery recently opened a homeplace in Frankfort, Kentucky, right across the street from the historic Buffalo Trace, after a rebranding from a previous version of the company that was located in Georgetown, Kentucky called Bourbon 30.
In the late 1700s, the Mattingly family migrated to Kentucky from Maryland, ending up in Marion County along with six other Catholic families. In 1845, John Graves Mattingly opened what is believed by the Mattingly family to be Kentucky’s second
