They sold it to a Japanese company, Takara, Shuzzo, and Takara is really, it now owns ancient age.

They went on to buy out the entire company from Ferdi and Bob in, I think, 91, 92 timeframe.

So that story kind of is interesting because at that point, Takara now owning Ancient Age, they didn't want to, they didn't want to run the

distillery and they really didn't want to deal with domestic U.S. distribution.

So they immediately found a partner with Sazirac to say, let's split off, we will sell you

the distillery and you will become our contract, essentially, you know, contract distil this for us.

And that relationship remains today.

So plans is sourced.

Blans is sourced.

I mean, you could say that in a way.

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