It’s a full-scale comedy of errors, dialed up to 100 proof. From the deluded thieves themselves, to the naive distilleries that employed them, to the hapless police who chased them, nobody comes out of this story looking good. What these episodes, titled “The Bourbon King” reveal is a story that will have any reasonable viewer shaking their head in disbelief, not at the “criminal masterminds” on display but the sheer incompetence of everyone who was involved. The case, and the eventual arrests that followed, have been bourbon industry legend ever since, but now a wider world will likely hear about “Pappygate” for the first time via Netflix’s new crime docu-series Heist, which dedicates two of its six episodes to the scandal. The story broke big back in 2013, becoming national news when morning shows and newspapers couldn’t resist the romantic, bootlegger-esque sound of it-how does one make off with cases upon cases, and indeed entire barrels of whiskey?
If you’re a bourbon fan, you’re no doubt familiar with the story of “Pappygate,” the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Pappy Van Winkle bourbon (and tons of other whiskey) from the Buffalo Trace and Wild Turkey distilleries in Kentucky.
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