From the foothills of Tennessee
Bourbon Barrels
Reborn.
Reclaimed, restored, and rehomed — barrels, planters, and components carrying the smoke of every year they spent in the rickhouse.
Whole Barrels & Living Vessels
The Centerpieces
Two ways to bring a bourbon barrel home — kept whole, or reborn as a planter that holds a season's garden.
Reclaimed Components
Pieces of the Barrel
For woodworkers, BBQ pitmasters, and makers — the staves, hoops, and heads that built the barrel, sold by the piece.
The Story
From the Rickhouse to Your Land
We work directly with cooperages and distilleries across Tennessee and Kentucky to reclaim bourbon barrels at the end of their aging life. Each one has spent four to eight years holding bourbon in a rickhouse — pulling caramel and vanilla into the wood, leaving the staves dark with char and heavy with smoke.
When a barrel comes off the line, most of its life is still ahead of it. We bring them back to the foothills of the Smokies, inspect each one, and decide what it's going to be next — kept whole for decor and weddings, cut into planters, or broken down into staves, rings, and heads for makers who know what to do with reclaimed oak.
Every piece carries the original char, original hoops, and the brand of the cooperage that built it. None of it is reproduction. All of it has a story already written into the grain.
Get in Touch
Let's Talk Barrels
Whether you need one barrel or a truckload, share a few details and we'll get back to you. We typically reply within a day or two.