Big Machine Distillery

Big Machine Distillery is the Lynnville, Tennessee operation founded by Scott Borchetta — the music-industry executive who built Big Machine Records into the label that signed and launched Taylor Swift, Florida Georgia Line, Tim McGraw, and Justin Moore — as the direct spirits-industry expression of the same business empire. Established in 2018, Big Machine Distillery occupies a 7,500-square-foot production facility in Lynnville, a small Giles County town roughly 60 miles south of Nashville, with a secondary Nashville-area location (Big Machine Distillery in Nashville's SoBro neighborhood) operating as the brand's public-facing visitor experience and cocktail bar. The Big Machine Distillery brand is unusual in the country-music-celebrity-spirits space because the parent company is genuinely a major media operation rather than a single artist's licensed-brand deal. Big Machine Label Group is one of the largest independent country music labels in the world, and the distillery operates as a vertically integrated extension of the broader Big Machine brand ecosystem — tied to the label's artist roster through marketing partnerships, on-tour bar programs, and co-branded releases. Toby Keith was an early investor in the venture, and the operation has had ongoing partnerships with multiple Big Machine label artists for limited-edition releases and on-stage promotional placements. The product range is built around the Hand-Crafted Spirit Company concept — Big Machine Hand-Crafted Vo…