Kevin Gibson: ‘Pappy’ craze creates crazy black market for rare bourbons
Looking for a nice bottle of Pappy Van Winkle bourbon? Go to Craigslist.org’s Louisville site. Click “collectibles” and then search “bourbon.” Now, go to the bank and withdraw your life savings. The...
View ArticleTop-shelf work group seeks to make Louisville a bourbon and food destination
Mayor Greg Fischer has set in motion a plan to raise Louisville’s culinary and bourbon profile, signing an executive order creating a 34-member Louisville Metro Bourbon and Local Food Work Group. The...
View ArticleSteve Coomes: Some complain mayor’s restaurant-bourbon tourism team neglects...
“Your job as sales managers isn’t to light a fire under people. Your job is to find those salesmen already on fire and pour gasoline all over them!” —Zig Ziglar, motivational speaker Louisville...
View ArticleLooking for a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle bourbon this Christmas? Good Luck
Dr. Peter Hasselbacher just wanted a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle bourbon. Any kind, really. Having no luck going store to store, he joined the mailing list at Party Mart on Brownsboro Road. When he...
View ArticleCharity auction circumvents bourbon black market
With the scarcity of many high-end bourbons sending prices through the roof and creating a bourbon black market, Todd Antz at the Keg Liquors decided to come up with a way to not only circumvent those...
View ArticleWhat’s in a name?: The story behind Costco’s private label ‘Kirkland’ bourbon
Two things Kentuckians know, right down to their marrow: They know their basketball and they know their bourbon. Washington knows apples. So here comes Costco out of Issaquah, Wash., that most mass of...
View ArticleLeave your comfort zone in 2014 with these dining and drinking challenges
I talk a lot with people about what they like and don’t like about restaurant food and drink, and inevitably, the issue often comes down to timidity. Somebody’s grossed out by this food or has bad...
View ArticleThough whiskey is king abroad, vodka is the spirit of choice in the U.S.
The bombshell that Japanese-based beverage giant Suntory is acquiring Beam Brands and its extensive portfolio of bourbon labels came as a surprise to many, but maybe it shouldn’t have. It turns out...
View ArticleDiageo spending $2 million in Louisville to restore Stitzel-Weller...
Geez, we wrote about this earlier this month without bothering to read between the lines. In a Feb. 10 post, we reported Bulleit Bourbon Founder Tom Bulleit would offer exclusive tours of the Bulleit...
View ArticleSugar Plum Fairy meets Woodford Reserve: Louisville Ballet partners with Nanz...
Fall is quickly turning into winter with the temperature dropping and the piles of orange leaves on the ground getting bigger and bigger. And with Halloween almost over, that can mean only one thing:...
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