Saturday, November 2, 2024

The Bourbon de Luxe Brand Is Back in the Hands of the Wathen Family

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  Bourbon de Luxe Batch 2024-01, by Rolling Fork Spirits. I became aware of Bourbon de Luxe in the early 1990s. I was helping Jim Beam Brand...
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Friday, October 25, 2024

PBS Show About a Civil War Tragedy Has a Whiskey Connection

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  The E. J. Curley Distillery, later known as Kentucky River, was on the site of Camp Nelson, a Civil War Union Army base. Last night, PBS b...
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Monday, September 30, 2024

Did a Bourbon Family Murder Inspire the Song “Careless Love”?

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  Bessie Smith had the first hit with "Careless Love" in 1925. The tremendous success of Old Crow, the first modern bourbon, produ...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Formerly Great Company Yields to Blackmail by White Supremacist

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  In the new issue of The Bourbon Country Reader, I try to put a positive spin on the ghastly decision by Brown-Forman to discontinue its p...
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Thursday, August 8, 2024

This $12 Bourbon Is Pretty Good, and It Comes with a Story

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  Clark & Sheffield bourbon, $11.99/750 ml, 45% ABV. The name "Clark & Sheffield" may mean something to you if you are a f...
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Monday, August 5, 2024

Has the Next Great Whiskey Glut Begun?

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  Whiskey maturing in Kentucky. Ever since the “bourbon boom” began, about 20 years ago, people have speculated about a future whiskey glut....
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Friday, July 12, 2024

The House that Old Crow Built

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  Seaview Terrace, also known as the Carey Mansion, in Newport, Rhode Island. If you recognize the mansion pictured above, it probably has n...
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