Fugitives Spirits

While Fugitives owner, Jim Massey, traces his family back to the 1066 Norman Conquest of Britain, in the late 1600s they carried their love of the land with them as early American settlers. Today, that centuries honed passion for agriculture imbues every bottle carrying the ‘Fugitives’ brand.

The name springs from a group of Southern poets who gathered around 100 years ago to celebrate the benefits of traditional agricultural in the face of modernization. The Fugitives writers highlighted the values of agrarian traditions and self-reliance. That became a clarion call for Massey who honors the best in both agriculture and craftsmanship by making small batches of extraordinary whiskey from organically grown Tennessee grain.

Jim’s family farm remains nestled among the hills of Lincoln County, the birthplace of Tennessee Whiskey. He can point to the generations of maple trees where he harvests the charcoal used to mellow the whiskey flowing from copper stills. It doesn’t get more authentic than that. The proof of those efforts is Fugitives ‘Tennessee Waltz,’ a double-filtered dance of Tennessee flavors with hints of fig and chocolate punctuated by a sweet high note of caramel.