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Jefferson’s OCEAN Aged at Sea ® Voyage 30

Voyage 30 captain’s log.

The adventure of Jefferson’s OCEAN Aged at Sea® Voyage 30 Cask Strength Bourbon kicked off at the bustling Port of Savannah, where Kymera’s barrel boarded a ship destined for a one-of-a-kind aging journey. Amidst ideal storage temperatures ranging from a comfortable 68°F to a balmy 80.6°F, the barrel was loaded and secured as the vessel set sail, charting a global course through the world’s oceans.

As the ship cut through the waves, the mercury soared as they headed south, reaching a sweltering 95°F at the port of Manzanillo, Panama. That heat was the secret sauce for the beginning of your bourbon’s transformation. Through the constant motion of the water, the barrels expanded and contracted like synchronized dancers, coaxing the whiskey in and out of the wood at warp speed – basically turbo mode for maturation!

But it wasn’t all tropical heatwaves that created the depth and complexity you find in your glass. Things cooled down dramatically as OCEAN Voyage 30 crossed the International Date Line, hitting temperatures better suited for a cozy sweater while cruising the waters around the ports of New Zealand and Australia. This weather rollercoaster was the ultimate hyper-aging mechanism, maturing the bourbon as no rickhouse could.

Heading north into the North Australian Basin, temperatures ramped up again, hitting the mid-80s. And that wasn’t even the end of the ride. In the North Pacific Basin, the air temps took a nosedive back to the 40’s, only to soar into the 80’s once again just south of Long Beach, California.

Finally sailing back through the Panama Canal, the ship made its triumphant return to Savannah, having truly been aged at the mercy of the sea. This whirlwind maturation tour was far from a leisurely cruise. Three complete heat cycles later, this bourbon had given up significant angels’ share and emerged from the sea, destined for your glass.  Now that’s what we call a well-traveled spirit!

Kymera deeply values our community of partners, customers, suppliers and employees across the globe united in our goal of shaping the future. As a token of our appreciation, we invite you to experience the voyage – savoring the complexity of the flavor, respecting the global journey and marveling at the creativity of innovation. 

Kymera’s Sipping Tips:

As our barrel of Jefferson’s OCEAN Aged at Sea® Voyage 30 Bourbon was bottled at Cask Strength, we wanted to provide some tips on how best to enjoy this level of spirit.

• Cask-strength bourbon is a type of whiskey that is bottled directly from the barrel without dilution or blending with water. This means the bourbon is presented to your pallet at its natural, undiluted alcohol content as when it matured in the cask.
• Cask-strength bourbons have a higher alcohol content and a more robust and intense flavor profile. The full concentration of flavors, including the influence of the aging process and the characteristics of the barrel, is preserved. The result is a bolder, more complex bourbon retaining the purity and heat, while providing a better representation of Jefferson’s offering.
• While cask-strength bourbon is bottled without dilution, it is common for enthusiasts to add a small amount of water to their glass when tasting. This can help unlock and enhance different flavors while slightly reducing the intensity of the alcohol. We recommend adding a couple drops of water or letting your glass rest with an ice cube prior to drinking.
• Please sip responsibly.

“ Dear valued customers and friends, I want to take a moment to express my sincere gratitude for your unwavering support and business with Kymera International. Your trust, loyalty, and confidence inspire us to strive for excellence in everything we do. To celebrate our partnership and recognize your invaluable contribution to our journey, we are delighted to share with you a special gift of Jefferson's OCEAN Aged at Sea® Voyage 30 Bourbon, bottled at Cask Strength. This exclusive, small-batch bourbon has traveled the world's oceans and represents our expanding global presence and promise of sustainability. We hope you enjoy this small token of our appreciation, and please know that we truly value your partnership. Thank you for being an integral part of our business. We look forward to continuing to serve you and shaping the future together. “

Barton White, CEO

Jefferson’s Ocean – Voyage 8

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Captain’s log.

The trip of the “Parsifal” started out in June, above the equator in 80-90° weather and calm seas allowing the barrels to expand and add flavors of oak and vanilla early in the voyage.

By July, the ship had dropped below the equator into much colder temperatures and very rough seas. As a result, the barrels tightened up and the bourbon was constantly washed over the charred wood giving it a deep, smokey aroma. After four more crossings, the Parsifal ended its voyage much as it began in calm waters and temperatures in the 80’s. Every voyage is different due to timing and climate and as a result, every Jefferson’s OCEAN Voyage is unique in color and flavor. ENJOY OCEAN Voyage 8.

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• 1 Understand
• 2.1 By public transport
• 2.3 By boat
• 2.4 By bike or on foot
• 3 Get around

Ascona is a small town next to Locarno at the Lake Maggiore in Ticino .

Understand [ edit ]

Ascona was able to maintain its charm as a colony of artists and drop-out even as the touristy Locarno developed into a big tourist destination. Strict limitations for cars ensure that the main center of the town is car free. Its tranquil people make this town a calming and refreshing visit. The old buildings have been beautifully kept restored. Ascona is popular for day trips and boat tours to the Brissago Islands. The Lake Maggiore cools the town in summer and ensures a Mediterranean feeling in winter.

Get in [ edit ]

By public transport [ edit ].

Two bus lines connect Ascona to Locarno which are run by the public transport system FART . The Locarno railway station connects the area to the Swiss train network.

• Bus 1 goes from Locarno to Ascona every 15 minutes.
• Bus 316 goes to Brissago and stops at Ascona on the way. One trip per hour.

By car [ edit ]

Visitors from most of Switzerland will arrive from the east, taking one of the two bridges over the river Maggia. You can bypass the sometimes heavy traffic in Locarno using the Mappo-Morettina tunnel. To arrive from southwestern parts of Switzerland (e.g. Valais ), it can be faster to take a shortcut through the Simplon Pass and the Italian town of Domodossola . A road on the western shore of Lake Maggiore also connects Ascona to the Italian region of Piedmont via Brissago.

The old town cannot generally be reached by car, but there are several public parking lots surrounding it. From any of these, it's a short walk to the lakefront.

By boat [ edit ]

Boats on Lake Maggiore stop at the Ascona boat dock in the middle of the old town. These can be a pleasant way to get into Ascona from Locarno, Brissago and the Italian towns on the lake.

By bike or on foot [ edit ]

The distance by bike or on foot from Piazza Grande, the main square of Locarno, to the Ascona old town is about 3 km. A pedestrian bridge, completed in 2020 and therefore not visible on some older maps, makes the trip easier for bikes and pedestrians. Bike rentals can be found in Locarno.

Get around [ edit ]

The town is best discovered on foot as small lanes are in general pedestrian only.

See [ edit ]

• Lake promenade
• Bagno pubblico - the public beach of Ascona
• House Serodine , Town Hall Square . Facade on three floors (1620) in Baroque style with stucco decorations Serodine of John the Baptist (1587-1626).  
• 46.1612 8.7736 1 Museo Castello San Materno , via Losone 10 , ☏ +41 91 759 81 60 , [email protected] . Th-Sa 10:00-12:00, afternoon variable, Su 14:00-16:00 . The oldest still standing part of this castle goes back to the 6th-8th century. Today it is used as a art museum. Fr. 7/5 . ( updated Aug 2017 )
• 46.1557 8.7672 2 Museo Comunale d'Arte Moderna , via Borgo 34 , ☏ +41 91 759 81 40 , [email protected] . Th-Sa 10:00-12:00, afternoon variable, Su 10:00-12:30 . Museum of modern arts. Fr. 10/7 . ( updated Aug 2017 )

Do [ edit ]

• Ascona Locarno and the Magic Valley . 3-4 hours . Regional bicycle path n. 31: Tenero – Locarno – Losone – Avegno – Gordevio – Maggia .  

Events [ edit ]

• JazzAscona , 3, Luini St ( Tourist Office Lake Maggiore, Locarno ), [email protected] . latest 20th - 29th of June 2014 . Jazz Ascona is one of the major world events dedicated to the classic jazz and New Orleans' Beat.  
• Musical weeks of Ascona , Tourist Office Lake Maggiore ( Locarno ), ☏ +41 848 091 091 , fax : +41 91 759 76 94 , [email protected] . Since the founding of the Settimane Musicali of Ascona in 1946 the event represents a recurring and very much appreciated date on the annual events calendar and therefore has become an integral part of the traditions and the music entertainment panorama of the Lake Maggiore region especially and the Canton of Ticino in general.  
• Street Artists' Festival , 3, Madonna della Fontana St , fax : +41 91 791 21 02 , [email protected] .  

Buy [ edit ]

At the lakefront there are mostly hotels and restaurants, but the narrow pedestrian streets leading away from the lake have dozens of little stores where you can find almost anything.

Eat [ edit ]

There are numerous restaurants at the lakefront. In these, you'll generally have to pay for the view - which may well be worth it, as the view is very nice indeed. On the other hand, if you're only after food, you may find better value for your money a block or two inland.

• 46.153343 8.770198 1 Osteria Nostrana , Piazza G. Motta , ☏ +41 91 791 51 58 , [email protected] . ( updated Mar 2017 )

Drink [ edit ]

Sleep [ edit ].

• 46.15762 8.76986 1 Hotel La Perla, Ascona , Via Collina 14 , ☏ +41 91 791 35 77 , [email protected] . from Fr. 144 . ( updated Jan 2023 )

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Go next [ edit ].

• Locarno is the next city, just across the river and offers all modes of transportation.
• Losone is the neighboring town just upriver. It is mostly residential and less touristy than Ascona or Locarno, but there are several traditional Ticinese "grotto" restaurants there.

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11 of History’s Most Famous Sea Voyages

By julie fogerson | mar 11, 2022.

Throughout history, sea travel in the name of exploration, trade, and research has provided a watery road to modern globalism. We have always wondered at the waves, finding ways to wade deeper and wander further: The world’s oldest known boat, the Pesse canoe , dates to around 8000 BCE; there is evidence Egyptians began sailing around 4000 BCE ; and the Phoenicians are credited with ship-building expertise that allowed them to circumnavigate Africa in 600 BCE. Here are 11 incredible sea voyages and voyagers that helped advance our understanding of the world.

1. Leif Erikson’s Voyage to North America // c. 1000

Born in 970, Norse explorer Leif Erikson was the second son of Erik the Red , a native of Iceland who colonized Greenland around 980. According to Viking sagas written a few centuries after the events, Erikson heard about an unfamiliar land to the west of Greenland and went to investigate it, eventually landing with a small crew on the northern peninsula of Newfoundland. Though the settlement didn't last long, archaeological evidence and the sagas suggest that Erikson’s Vikings were the first Europeans to set foot in North America .

2. Zheng He’s Seven Diplomatic Voyages // 1405-1433

Beginning life as Ma Sanbao in 1371, Zheng He grew up in a prosperous Muslim family in China. When he was about 10, he was captured during Emperor Hong Wu’s attack on his city and made to serve as a court eunuch. He eventually rose up the ranks, becoming a valued diplomat and commander of the Ming Dynasty’s navy. He embarked on his first voyage in 1405 , commanding the emperor’s enormous fleet of “treasure ships.” Some of the hundreds of vessels were 400 feet in length, and the whole armada was crewed by 28,000 sailors. During his seven expeditions to lands surrounding the South China Sea and Indian Ocean, Zheng He helped spread China’s culture and political influence. Chinese emigration increased, as did tributes to Chinese leaders . Upon Zheng He’s death in 1433, and the establishment of a new emperor, the expeditions’ ships and logs were destroyed. This ended the “golden era” of Chinese sea exploration, making room for Europeans .

3. Ferdinand Magellan’s Circumnavigation of the Globe // 1519-1522

Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan’s voyage is credited with being first to circumnavigate the globe. In 1519, approximately 260 men and five ships set sail from Spain, searching for a western route to the Spice Islands (in modern-day Indonesia). Magellan named the Pacific Ocean ( Pacific means “peaceful”) and discovered the Strait of Magellan at the bottom of South America by accident (it's still used to this day for navigation between the Atlantic and Pacific). While Magellan deserves his due for masterminding the voyage, a poison arrow ended him in 1521 upon his arrival in the Philippines. According to some historians, Enrique , an enslaved Malay man in Magellan’s crew, completed the circumnavigation first, albeit over more than one voyage, before Magellan’s remaining 18 crewmembers made it back to Spain in 1522.

4. “Pirate Queen” Grace O’Malley’s Defense of Ireland // c. 1546-1586

Irish seafarer Gráinne Ní Mháille, a.k.a. Grace O’Malley, a.k.a. Ireland’s pirate queen, is considered one of the last Irish clan rulers to fight against English domination in Ireland. Born in 1530, Grace began her high-stakes, high seas career at age 11, when Ireland was ruled by about 40 Gaelic clans (the O’Malley clan motto was “powerful by land and by sea”). When her father died, it was Grace and not her elder brother who became clan leader, managing two galleys, 20 ships, and more than 200 men to plunder coastal strongholds and defend against English encroachment. When Grace negotiated the release of prisoners and seized land with Queen Elizabeth I, she demanded an audience as an equal . A respected matriarch in her time, she was omitted from history for centuries. Today, she is celebrated for her leadership at sea.

5. The Sea Venture’s Adventure // 1609-1610

The Sea Venture has been dubbed “ the shipwreck that saved Jamestown ” and inspired William Shakespeare while he wrote The Tempest . The ship, part of a convoy sent from England in 1609, was supposed to resupply the desperate Virginia colony . But when it sailed straight into a hurricane and rammed a reef around then-uninhabited Bermuda, the Sea Venture ’s adventure appeared to be over. However, all 150 souls aboard survived by swimming to shore and set about building two new ships to take them the rest of the way. The castaways arrived in Jamestown about 10 months later. Their story of survival not only restored England’s desire to make its American colony a success; it also led to the second English colony established in the Americas—not in New England, but in Bermuda.

6. The Mayflower’s Arrival in North America // 1620

The Mayflower , a second-hand merchant ship carrying 102 passengers, left Plymouth, England, for North America in 1620. Forty of the passengers were Protestant separatists (later known as Pilgrims) who sought to establish a colony in America where they could practice their religion freely. They had permission to settle anywhere on the coast between the Chesapeake Bay and New York Harbor. But two miserable months after launch, the Mayflower landed in New England, about one degree of latitude north of where it was meant to be. The colonists named the new settlement Plymouth, drafted a document to set guidelines for self-governance, and launched a historic experiment in democracy and religious freedom.

7. The Three Voyages of James Cook // 1768-1780

James Cook vowed to sail “ as far as I think it possible for man to go ” and ended up mapping more territory than any other mariner of his era. He joined the British Royal Navy in his twenties, and in 1767 produced a chart of Newfoundland that was so accurate it was still being used in the 20th century . Cook led his first exploratory expedition in 1768, destined for the South Pacific to observe the transit of Venus and to chart New Zealand, Tasmania, and parts of Australia. He came quite close to spotting Antarctica during a second circumnavigation to explore and map several South Pacific islands. In 1776, on his third and last epic voyage, Cook came within 50 miles of the western entrance to the Northwest Passage in the Bering Strait. He was the first European commander to visit Hawaii, where friction increased between his crew and the local people; Cook was killed by Native Hawaiians in 1779 and the expedition concluded without him the following year. Among his countless observations and discoveries, Cook found that fresh fruits seemed to prevent scurvy , without knowing just how the remedy worked.

8. The Wreck of the Whaler Essex // 1820

Another voyage serving up literary inspiration is the tale of the Essex . An 87-foot whaling ship, the Essex was built of incredibly strong white oak and fitted for a 2.5-year voyage. It left Nantucket in 1819, made its way around Cape Horn, and headed into the South Pacific. On November 20, 1820, an 85-foot sperm whale rammed the ship twice and caused it to sink, serving some small measure of justice on behalf of his species (numbering 300,000 today from an estimated 1.1 million prior to whaling). While the 20 crewmembers initially survived, they drifted in boats across the open ocean for three months and eventually resorted to cannibalism. Only eight made it home . Herman Melville based the climactic scene in Moby-Dick on the Essex tragedy.

9. Charles Darwin’s Voyage on the HMS Beagle // 1831-1836

Charles Darwin said his education “ really began aboard the Beagle .” A fresh university graduate at age 22, Darwin paused his planned career as a clergyman and joined the Beagle as its naturalist. Setting sail in 1831, the ship’s mission was to journey around the world, surveying the South American coast and conducting chronometric studies. Time spent in the Galápagos truly informed Darwin’s theories on evolution, providing an opportunity to observe species development in an isolated environment. Darwin also considered coral, recording geological observations about islands and coastlines . And the Beagle , commanded by Lieutenant Robert FitzRoy, achieved its goal of accurately charting the coast of South America, including the Strait of Magellan's dangerous shoals.

10. Ernest Shackleton’s Miraculous Endurance // 1914-1916

Anglo-Irish mariner Ernest Shackleton first sailed to Antarctica in 1901 on a mission to reach the South Pole, which ended with a bad case of scurvy. He would come within 97 nautical miles of the pole on his second expedition. But it was his third venture aboard the Endurance for which he is most famous. In 1914, he led a crew of 28 men intending to be the first to cross Antarctica by land, but the ship became trapped in pack ice for 10 months and sank on November 21, 1915. The crew set up camp on ice floes, drifted on treacherous seas, and washed up on an uninhabited polar island. Shackleton and five men then sailed 800 miles across the planet’s most rambunctious seas for rescue. All hands succeeded in their revised mission: survival . Shackleton’s story serves as a lesson in leadership against all odds and overcoming outrageous obstacles.

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