Over the weekend, I mentioned 1792 Ridgemont Reserve. You might know that the 1792 in the name is a reference to the year that Kentucky became the 15th state. But did you know the bourbon was called “Ridgewood Reserve 1792” when it…
Over the weekend I attended a party where Tim Laird, Brown-Forman’s “CEO” (Chief Entertaining Officer), was slinging the drinks, and I experienced one of the most eye-opening (palate-awakening?) moments of my bourbon-drinking life: I had bourbon and red wine. In…
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…
It’s such a fine line between clever and stupid, David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) says in “This Is Spinal Tap.” There’s also a fine line between clever and incorrect. A story posted on Forbes.com last week carried this headline: “When…
Three Louisville distillers are the targets of a federal class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of residents who say the vapors from aging whiskey – the “angel’s share” – are covering their homes and cars with black spots. The defendants, Diageo Americas Supply…
Because this is Derby week, and because Woodford Reserve is the official bourbon of the Kentucky Derby, you might reasonably expect that today’s cocktail is a version of that old Derby standard, the mint julep. Unless, that is, you are…
Be sure to check out the winter issue of The Bourbon Review, now on sale at all Liquor Barn outlets. This issue features stories about Alltech’s Town Branch Bourbon, Bulleit Bourbon’s new home in Louisville – and my story about the interesting avocation of…
The cost will be “significant,” but most of the deteriorating buildings in the 100 block of Louisville’s West Main Street – known as “Whiskey Row” during the city’s heyday as the capital of the bourbon-shipping world – can be saved,…
Louisville’s Hometown Heroes program honored Brown-Forman founder George Garvin Brown on Tuesday, Sept. 6, with the unveiling of this three-story mural at 122 W. Main St., in the heart of what was once Louisville’s Whiskey Row. Brown was the first distiller to bottle his…
Happy Birthday to George Garvin Brown. The founder of Old Forester Bourbon and Brown-Forman Corp. was born Sept. 2, 1846, and in his honor, Brown-Forman has released a limited-edition Old Forester Birthday Bourbon every year since 2002. Each of these bourbons…
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