Tag: Westport Whiskey and Wine

Mom’s Mint Julep

This recipe is from Chris Zaborowski, co-owner of Westport Whiskey and Wine in Louisville, and uses Old Forester, as of 2015 the Official Mint Julep of the Kentucky Derby. You can buy premixed Old Forester Mint Julep, but the best…

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R-O-C-K (S) in the USA

While 95 percent of the world’s bourbon is produced right here in Kentucky, we don’t hold the franchise on whiskey. (Remember: All bourbon is whiskey, but not all whiskey is bourbon.) Wednesday, Jan. 25, Westport Whiskey & Wine in Louisville’s…

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Have a drink with the Bourbon Babe

If you’re a bourbon-loving woman in the Louisville, Ky., metro area, make plans to join me this coming Wednesday for the first-ever Bourbon Babe Bourbon Tasting. We will explore the sometimes surprising fruit notes in several premium bourbons (is that…

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Join me for a Bourbon Babe event!

Attention, female bourbon lovers in the Louisville area: Make plans to join me on Wednesday, Nov. 2, at Westport Whiskey & Wine in Westport Village for the first-ever Bourbon Babe bourbon tasting. In this “women-only” event, we will explore the surprising…

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‘A bourbon that actually tastes good’

That was the simple-but-profound goal that led to his father’s development of Maker’s Mark, Bill Samuels Jr. said Tuesday night during a tasting at Westport Whiskey & Wine in Louisville (below). Most bourbons in the old days were fiery and…

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Westport’s ‘Whiskey Wednesday’

Sample the wares of McLain & Kyne Distillery at Westport Whiskey & Wine’s “Whiskey Wednesday,” 7-8 p.m. July 27. Chet Zoeller, founder of McLain & Kyne and the   author of “Bourbon in Kentucky,” will sign his book and offer tastes of…

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