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…
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…
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…
Alltech’s Lexington Brewing & Distilling Co., maker of Town Branch Bourbon, today became the seventh official stop on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail tour and the first craft distillery to join the trail. The $6 million distillery is scheduled to open in September…
Earlier on the blog, I quoted the Kentucky Distillers’ Association’s Eric Gregory about the increase in bourbon tourism here in Kentucky, particularly to the six distilleries that make up the Kentucky Bourbon Trail. But there are still people out there, believe…
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