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Wheel of fortunate

My reporting at Buffalo Trace for an upcoming story led me to the lab, where I encountered this beautiful piece of furniture: the tasting table. It’s here that the distillery maintains the flavor profiles of its products. Each day, a glass of whatever brands are…

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U.S. distilled spirits exports topped $1 billion in 2011 for the fourth straight year. Kentucky bourbon and Tennessee whiskey made up more than $700 million of that amount. Statistic from a Kentucky Distillers’ Association report cited in a Business First…

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New tasting rooms at Maker’s Mark

While I was in Loretto, Ky., for Maker’s Mark’s Cocktail Party a couple of weeks ago, I had a chance to peek at the distillery’s three new tasting rooms, one of which is pictured above. The distillery added the rooms, which…

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These Girls Walk into a Blog…

Jordan Catapano likes to mix things up. The professional bartender and mixologist serves as a cocktail expert for several online publications and blogs at www.thisgirlwalksintoabar.com, where she also sells barware and apparel (I bought the “Real Women Drink Bourbon” T-shirt, of course)….

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Roll out the Bourbon Barrel Stout

Trey White, CEO of Anderson Valley Brewing Co., and Jimmy Russell, master distiller for Wild Turkey, toasted their companies’ first collaboration at a rollout of Anderson Valley’s Bourbon Barrel Stout at the Silver Dollar Lounge in Louisville on Nov. 7….

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Woodford Reserve Master’s Collection

The new Woodford Reserve Master’s Collection, being released in 47 U.S. markets this week, is a batching of mature Woodford Reserve bourbon aged in oak barrels and then finished in barrels made from maple wood, sherry wood and port wood. Woodford…

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Bourbon dinner with the Pilgrims

Bourbon and Banter, a group of bourbon enthusiasts based in St. Louis, Mo., made a pilgrimage to Kentucky over the weekend. They visited several distilleries from a base in Louisville, and I joined them Friday for a three-course dinner at…

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Craft distilleries join the Trail

The Kentucky Bourbon Trail tour just got bigger – by adding some little guys. The Kentucky Bourbon Trail Craft Tour will include seven micro-distilleries that stretch from Marshall to Mason counties: Barrel House Distillery, Lexington Corsair Artisan Distillery, Bowling Green Limestone…

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