ULTRA PREMIUM WHISKEY
SHE MAKES THE RULES
Sheila Jackson
Founder & CEO
I’m from Tennessee — where whiskey is culture, memory, and heritage.
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I lived more than thirty years in California, where my love of wine, structure, and layered flavor deepened. Jackson McCrea lives at that intersection — Tennessee roots, California refinement.
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What started as a love of flavor became something bigger.
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Because whiskey has always been bigger than the story most people tell about it.
She Was There
Whiskey didn’t just pass through the hands of men.
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Enslaved Black women were part of the labor that sustained early Southern whiskey production - preparing grain and managing a system that relied on human skill, not machinery. Frontier women distilled for their families and communities. During Prohibition, women sold, moved, and protected spirits when others couldn’t. And in more recent history, women built brands, ran companies, and turned whiskey into empires of their own.
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Some were documented. Many were not.
But they were there.
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Jackson McCrea honors all of them — the women who preserved the craft, the women who defied the rules, and the women who built businesses in an industry that rarely made room for them.
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And we’re proud to carry it forward.