PROJECT SPOTLIGHT / BOURBON INDUSTRY WEBSITE

Legacy Cooperages: Barrels, people, and a legacy. One job: the quote.

Legacy Cooperages builds bourbon barrels in Kentucky. Shaun Wilson Designs built the brand and the website, and shot nearly every photograph on it, from the ground and from the air. The whole site is organized around a single job: getting a barrel quote in front of the right person quickly.

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CLIENT

Legacy Cooperages

LOCATION

Bardstown, Kentucky

FOCUS

Bourbon barrel cooperage

DELIVERY

Brand, website, ground + aerial photography

BOURBON INDUSTRY

A cooperage sells trust, then barrels.

A distillery choosing a cooperage is choosing the wood its whiskey will live in for years. The website had to show the people, the staves, the char and the scale of the operation with the same seriousness the buyers bring to the decision, and then get out of the way of the one action that matters: a quote request.

That meant original photography rather than stock, a structure that leads every page back to the quote, and a brand that reads as established rather than new. Nearly every image on the site was shot by Shaun on the cooperage floor and above it.

IN ONE LINE

A cooperage sells trust, then barrels.

Nearly every photograph on the site was shot by Shaun, on the floor and from the air.

THE WORK, AS BUILT

Exact screens, not mockups.

These are direct browser captures of the live site at 1440 and 390 pixels. Nothing redrawn, nothing staged.

Exact capture of the Legacy Cooperages homepage at 1440 pixels.
Legacy Cooperages: homepage at 1440 pixels.
WHAT I BUILT

The work, piece by piece.

01

Brand and identity

A brand system for a cooperage that had the craft but not the visual language to match it: mark, type, color and tone carried through the site.

02

The website

A WordPress site built around the barrel quote: cooperage story, barrels and specifications, people, and a direct request route on every page.

03

Ground photography

The cooperage floor, the staves, the hoops, the char and the crew, photographed in-house so the site shows the real operation rather than stock imagery.

04

Aerial photos

Drone photography of the facility and its yard, giving buyers the scale of the operation in one frame.

05

Quote-first structure

Navigation, page endings and calls to action all lead to the quote request, so a busy distillery buyer never has to hunt for the next step.

06

Phone-ready

The site holds its hierarchy on a phone, where a buyer is as likely to first look as at a desk.

DESKTOP, DETAIL, PHONE

Built for every screen it will meet.

Current desktop, detail, and phone screens from the Legacy Cooperages website.
Current desktop, detail and phone views from Legacy Cooperages.
THE RESULT

A website that sells the cooperage before the first call.

Legacy Cooperages now has a brand and a website that match the barrels: established, photographed properly, and pointed at the quote. Buyers see the people, the process and the scale, and the request form is never more than one step away.

Shaun Wilson Designs continues to look after the site and the business systems behind it.

LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY + SOUTHERN INDIANA

Built in Louisville, for Louisville and Southern Indiana.

Shaun Wilson Designs is a one-person web design company in Louisville, Kentucky, doing Louisville web design and WordPress development for businesses across Louisville and Southern Indiana: custom WordPress websites, online stores, custom plugins like the ones on this page, premium web design for heritage brands, redesigns that keep your rankings, WordPress repair and care plans for the sites I host. See more of the work in the project portfolio.

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