![]() Wesley says: “I’m still learning the ropes. The Bourbon business is new territory for the actors, but they are keen to bring their story to life through the brand. When we present it to friends and family, they see that I’m sincere about it. “I’m not gonna spend my time pushing a product that I don’t like, that I don’t wanna drink myself. “Ian and I have the exact same taste,” says Wesley. Brother’s Bond spends at least four years in virgin American oak It is aged for a minimum of four years in virgin American oak barrels. The resulting flagship product is a four-grain, high‐rye Bourbon comprising 65% corn, 22% rye and a percentage of wheat and barley that has not been disclosed. “What we were looking for was approachability, complexity and nuance to carry it to a Bourbon drinker.” “I’m not trying to sound like a lunatic alcoholic who can’t control himself, but we are obsessed with this Bourbon,” he says. The process of the Bourbon took more than a year of blending, morning and night, adds Somerhalder. ![]() The level of patience and efficiency of our team who brought our vision to life, it’s nothing short of a miracle. ![]() ![]() Bourbon requires a tremendous amount of patience it takes four years to get one bottle of our Bourbon, it’s quite complicated. Paul and I talked and figured out structurally how we were going to plan this out. “My wife and I knew we were going to have a baby at some point soon. “When we were getting to the tail end of the show, at six or seven seasons, we knew we needed to plan our routes of where we were going and what we were going to do,” explains Somerhalder. In 2017, as The Vampire Diaries came to an end after eight seasons and 171 episodes, the two started formulating their plans for the future. We were shooting 22 episodes, sometimes more, a year – nine and a half months out of a year.” “It was a conversation that began in Atlanta a decade ago and we were like ‘man, we should be doing something like this’. I only drink Bourbon, I don’t drink Tequila or gin or anything. After the show finished it continued to be our ritual it was the obvious choice. “That was our ritual in Atlanta for almost a decade. “Ultimately, Ian and I bonded on screen, the two characters we played drank Bourbon on screen and we drank Bourbon off screen,” Wesley explains over Zoom, joined by Somerhalder, from their homes in Los Angeles. It was named after their former roles on the show, as well as their shared love of Bourbon and the ‘brotherhood’ they developed over the years they starred together. When The Vampire Diaries first aired in 2009 on The CW channel, it kick‐started a decade‐long bond between the supernatural drama’s leading actors, Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder, who played Bourbon‐loving vampire brothers Stefan and Damon Salvatore.īut the friendship blossomed beyond the show, leading the pair to launch a Bourbon brand in 2020, aptly called Brother’s Bond. *This feature was originally published in the November 2021 issue of The Spirits Business magazine. ![]() Somerhalder (l) and Wesley (r) plan to open their own distillery in Kentucky We spoke to the duo to learn about their plans for the brand. Actors Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder met when they starred in The Vampire Diaries and soon discovered their mutual love of Bourbon, which they have transformed into Brother’s Bond. ![]()
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