Wild Turkey is a bourbon distillery founded in 1869 in Tyrone, near Lawrenceburg, in the state of Kentucky. The Wild Turkey brand is said to have been founded after Thomas McCarthy, a director of the brand’s bottler Austin Nichols, took home a few samples of bourbon from a trip to hunt wild turkey in 1940. According to legend, he invited some close friends to taste what would become Wild Turkey Bourbon and they were immediately smitten.

This Wild Turkey 12 Year Old is a special bottling of the finest casks selected by the master distiller. It was produced exclusively for the French market, with a label featuring words from Molière that pay tribute to a key figure in the American War of Independence, Frenchman Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette. La Fayette, who was posthumously named an honorary citizen of the United States, is today still a symbol of the alliance between the United States and France.