Crestwood-based Rolling Fork Spirits has a new product — a blend of 12-year-old Trinidad rum, aged in bourbon barrels, and a five-year-old cask-strength rye whiskey.

Rolling Fork is a new company, and this blend, called Fortuitous Union, is its first release. It went on sale in the Louisville market in December and, more recently, in the Chicago market.

"We were able to marry two delicious spirits—rum and rye—together to create something unlike anything on the market today," Turner Wathen, co-founder of Fortuitous Union, said in a news release.

Several Louisville retailers sold out their supply within days, according to the release.

The blend was accidental. The two founders, Wathen and Jordan Morris, imported rum from Trinidad and sent it to a warehouse in Louisville, where it was aged for six months in used bourbon barrels. The final product was to be called Rolling Fork Rum. But when the warehouse employees moved the rum from the bourbon barrels to a holding tank, they didn't know the tank already contained rye whiskey. They panicked initially but, to their surprise, they found that the new concoction tasted delicious.

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