Time is running out to enter your cocktail recipe in the Bourbon Women Association’s Not Your Pink Drink contest: Entries must be received electronically by 11:59 p.m. EDT Sept. 1 (tomorrow) at www.bourbonwomen.org. There are two divisions: professional bartender (entry…

Black Maple Hill Bourbon 95 proof; no age listed Aroma: Very sweet. Corn, vanilla, caramel, green apple, light cinnamon, maybe a hint of maple syrup. Taste: Whoa! Much spicier on the palate than the nose would indicate. Coats the edges…

I love this postcard from the Silver Dollar Lounge, 1761 Frankfort Ave. in Louisville. Located in a former firehouse, this place does indeed get loud – but don’t let that keep you from checking out their bourbon-centric spirits list (one vodka,…

Wild Turkey broke ground yesterday on a $4 million visitors center that will sit just behind its new distillery building on Wild Turkey Hill in Lawrenceburg, Ky. (That’s an artist rendering above.) The 8,500-square-foot visitors center will replace the current 1,000-square-foot gift…

If you’re heading to the Kentucky State Fair this weekend, be sure to look for the nice folks from The Sweet Shoppe in Hodgenville, Ky., and try some of their Kentucky Bourbon Fudge, made with Maker’s Mark. They’re in the…

When I heard that Marriott was opening a luxury hotel in Jeffersontown, Ky. – a bourbon-themed hotel, no less, with a destination restaurant and bar – I must say I was skeptical. True, Marriott was spending $22 million to renovate…

Four Roses 2012 Limited Edition Small Batch Mingling of four recipes, aged 11 to 17 years Barrel strength; this sample, 115 proof Aroma: Vanilla, nutmeg, a creamy caramel Taste: Very tingly on the front, with hot white pepper; settles right…

The Woodford Reserve Distillery in Versailles, Ky., is celebrating 200 years of whiskey making this week. Of course, the distillery wasn’t always called Woodford Reserve; that brand, owned by Brown-Forman, began in the mid-1990s. But whiskey has been made on…

Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.) Dorothy Parker, writer and poet born this day in 1893.

Members of the Bourbon Women Association, a group founded in Kentucky in 2011 to provide educational and networking opportunities for women who appreciate America’s native spirit, have a lot in common besides their love of bourbon. They’re smart, sophisticated, confident…