article_snippet.sent: (CNN)When 65 cases of 20-year-old Pappy Van Winkle -- one of the rarest and most expensive bourbons in the world -- were reported missing from a Kentucky distillery in October 2013, it was the crime heard round the whiskey-drinking world.
article_snippet.sent: Frankfort's Buffalo Trace -- makers of Pappy -- and the nearby Wild Turkey Distillery, makers of the eponymous bourbon, according to the indictment.
article_snippet.sent: Just like making good bourbon -- a specific type of whiskey synonymous with the Bluegrass State --  
article_snippet.sent: Melton's case required time to develop and old-fashioned Kentucky ingenuity.
article_snippet.sent: Of the nine named, two worked at Buffalo Trace and one worked at Wild Turkey.
article_snippet.sent: Those barrels, weighing more than 500 pounds each and worth up to $6,000 apiece, had recently been stolen from Wild Turkey, Melton told BourbonBlog.com's Tom Fischer.
article_snippet.sent: Fischer, the whiskey blogger, got a different kind of emotional tug from what flanked the sheriff: several hundred thousand dollars' worth of recovered booze -- including 20 cases of Pappy.
article_snippet.sent: On behalf of bourbon lovers everywhere, we are thrilled that Pappy Pappy is back!