The Strategist: What Food & Wine Editor Hunter Lewis Can’t Live Without

February 27, 2019

"The Tom Beckbe brand started in Alabama, and it’s a funny story. This guy was a lawyer, and I saw him at a Christmas party four years ago, where he told me, “I have this jacket I’m going to start making,” and I said, “Yeah, right.” And then I saw the first iteration of his jacket, and it blew me away. They’re very heavy waxed jackets that are great for bird hunting and shotgun shells and are totally rain-resistant. The inside lining is dyed in industrial waters with Alabama red clay so there’s a sense of place, too. I also don’t like wearing things everyone else has on. I see your waxed Barbour jacket on the streets of NYC and Washington, D.C. and raise you a Tom Beckbe."

Tom Beckbe Tensaw Jacket

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Our latest collaboration with the Van Winkles dates back over seven years. In the fall of 2017, Tom Beckbe founder Radcliff Menge was less than six months out from leaving his full-time law practice when he connected with the Van Winkle sisters and created an idea for an exclusive, limited edition Tensaw Jacket in a now very collectable “stave brown” color. Individually numbered and signed by Julian Van Winkle III, a true visionary in the bourbon industry, those 100 jackets now trade at a heavy premium in the secondary market.

We’re delighted to renew the collaboration this fall and even more excited to offer the women’s Blakeley Jacket in the same colorway, which only seemed fitting for a collaboration with three amazing sisters.