The trend in our society in making bread, cheese, wine, beer – and now it’s our turn in the spirit business – is to be organic, to be as local as you can. Your hands are touching the soil and…

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Everything in moderation… including moderation. Julia Child, who would have been 100 on Aug. 15. Bon appetit!

My predecessor started the passport program in 2007, and 186 people completed the Kentucky Bourbon Trail that year. In five years we went from 186 people to nearly 12,000. We can’t print T-shirts fast enough. Eric Gregory, president of the…

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I thought that to have a complex drink, you had to have lots of ingredients. The reality is …. you can get a lot of complexity in an Old Fashioned with a good 100 proof whiskey, a good rich simple…

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I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass and grass. And I love you, too. Tom T. Hall, songwriter, born May 25, 1936, in Olive Hill, Ky.

Only the first bottle is expensive. French proverb. Happy Bastille Day!

He drinks a whiskey drink, he drinks a vodka drink He drinks a lager drink, he drinks a cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the…

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Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved man’s lot and enriched his civilization with rye, bourbon and the Martini cocktail. In all…

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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. Russell Baker, American essayist and journalist

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust. Walker Percy (1916-1990), Southern author (“The Moviegoer,” “Love in the Ruins”) and co-founder of the Fellowship of Southern Writers