The 2017 World Championship Bourbon Barrel Relay® Race at the Kentucky Bourbon Festival, Bardstown, Kentucky.The World Championship Bourbon Barrel Relay Races are the highlight of the annual Kentucky Bourbon Festival in Bardstown. Teams or indivi…
1995 ad from Smirnoff’s ‘Message in a Bottle’ campaign.In 2020, federal regulators in the U. S. dropped the rule that vodka has to be “without distinctive character, aroma, taste, or color.” Since they didn’t change the definition of vodka, this m…
The Wigle Whiskey production team (left to right) Richard Platania, Brian Waryck, Michael Foglia, and (center) Rachel Bateman, Taylor Bostock. Pittsburgh-based Wigle Whiskey won 28 medals, the most of any distillery, at the American Craft Sp…
The original Jacob’s Well Bourbon (c. 1997)In their promotion for Hardin’s Creek, a new brand from Beam Suntory, they write this: “There’s a mantra in the Beam family: True legacy is never finished.”That statement may be truer than its writer int…
Grave of James Christopher Crow; Versailles Cemetery; Versailles, Kentucky.Although death is always the end of something, it can cause something else to begin. That is what happened when James Christopher Crow, 67, died in Woodford County, Kentuc…
Bound by a NDA, or lying?A non-disclosure agreement (NDA) is a legal contract covering confidential information the parties wish to share with each other, but with restrictions on wider sharing. In the whiskey world, when you try to find out who made s…
Maturation warehouse at the Green River Distillery, Owensboro, Kentucky.It was announced today that Bardstown Bourbon Company is buying the Green River Distillery in Owensboro, as well as Green River’s bottling, blending, and product development …
Ice house and barn foundation on South Manitou Island, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Northern Michigan. Rosen Rye Day 2022. Party bus in foreground.MICHIGAN SENATESenate Resolution No. 160Offered by Senators Victory, Bayer, Huizenga, Santana …
I’m often asked what prompted me to start writing about bourbon. I always talk about living in Louisville and working in the industry, and about how my parents always drank bourbon. But there is a chicken-egg aspect to the story I’ve only just re…
Legent is Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Partially Finished in Wine and Sherry Casks.Marketing copywriters are taught the power of certain words. They’re obvious. You see them all the time. Short, sharp shots, they practically demand their exc…
