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State takes whiskey away from collector - gives whiskey back

January 8, 2009

A Nashville-area plumber will get back most of his million-dollar collection of Jack Daniel’s whiskey bottles in a settlement with the state’s liquor board.

Randy Piper was indicted last January after state liquor officials seized 2,400 bottles in October 2007. The state said he was selling liquor without a license, but Piper has said he was collecting the whiskey for the vintage glass bottles.

The Tennessean reported Piper avoided jail time by agreeing to pretrial diversion. Now the Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission has agreed to return most of the bottles - some nearly 100 years old.

ABC Executive Director Danielle Elks said the state will keep and later auction off 400 to 500 bottles, mainly the less valuable green label whiskey and a third of the special reserve bottles.

-WMSR

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Written by Michael Lansing · Filed Under News 

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