Tag: Woodford Reserve

What Women Want… in Whiskey

Hello and welcome to International Women’s Day. Isn’t that great? We actually get a whole day dedicated to us! OK, I’m being petty. Women’s Day falls within Women’s History Month, and that’s 31 days. To celebrate, Diageo, the international spirits…

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Woodford Reserve

7855 McCracken Pike, Versailles, KY 40383. (Note: GPS will lead you to Indiana using this address; check the website below for driving directions. If you do get lost, remember that in Kentucky, we pronounce Versailles as “Ver-SALES.”) woodfordreserve.com/distillery/tours, 859-879-1812 PRODUCTS:…

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Jim Beam Double Oak

86 proof; 4 years, then aged “to taste” in second charred barrel $22/750ml The story: Jim Beam Double Oak, the latest new expression from the brand, is first aged for four years in charred American white oak barrels, then poured…

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Woodford Reserve Butterscotch Manhattan

  Several years back I was invited to Woodford Reserve’s Manhattan Experience, a competition co-sponsored by the bourbon and Esquire magazine that was held at the Kentucky Derby Museum. While the judges sampled variations on the Manhattan mixed by the…

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An Old Fashioned toast to ‘Mad Men’

When we first met Don Draper, in the very first scene of “Mad Men,” he was ordering “another one of these – an Old Fashioned.” And so whatever happens in tonight’s series finale, I will be toasting its run with that…

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The Bourgin

I am so prone to overthinking things that I often forget this trait until something smacks me in the face with it. That was the case last weekend when I saw a cocktail called “The Bourgin” on the bar menu…

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