Buzick Construction, Inc.

Buzick Construction was founded in 1937 by Cliff Buzick, who first visited Bardstown, KY as a distillery equipment salesman. Upon discovering that many of his customers didn’t have anyone to install the equipment he was selling them, Buzick moved his family from Louisville to Bardstown and opened a construction business to meet the need.

?In 1941, Buzick Construction finished construction on their first barrel storage warehouse for the Fairfield Distillery. From then on, the company became and remains the “go-to” builder for barrel warehouses, and maintains working relationships with many distilleries that go back to the start of the company.

?When Cliff’s son, Donald, took over the company, he expanded the clientele to commercial businesses in addition to distilleries. The size of projects Buzick Construction built increased and diversified to include manufacturing plants, churches, and banks; all the while their relationship with the bourbon industry remained as strong as ever.

?In 1975, Tom Blincoe, Donald’s son-in-law, joined the business. After working on local projects for a few years, in 1977 he moved with his family to Shelbyville, Tennessee to oversee the continuing job of building barrel storage warehouses for Jack Daniel’s Distillery, a distillery in Lynchburg that Buzick has had a relationship with since the 1940s. Tom oversaw the construction of 39 warehouses, completed in 1982.