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Finding the Heart of the Van Winkle Family Legacy: A Book Review of Pappyland

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Pappy Van Winkle bourbon has indisputably become an iconic symbol of the American good life. Prominently featured in contemporary film, literature, and music, gifted on special occasions, and toasted at celebrations, love it or hate it, the brand has assumed cult status in American drinking culture — with all the baggage that entails. People who

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Buffalo, Barrels, and Bourbon Masterfully Captures the Sprawling History of Buffalo Trace Distillery

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Buffalo Trace doesn’t open up its archives and plant operations to just anyone. Good thing F. Paul Picault isn’t just anyone. One of America’s preeminent spirits journalists, Picault has forgotten more about the spirits world than most will ever know, and is exactly the right person to take on the massive endeavor of writing a

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‘A Sense of Place’ finds its Voice in the Whiskey Communities of Scotland

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In Dave Broom’s capable hands, A Sense of Place: A Journey Around Scotland’s Whiskey is an intimate and compelling mosaic of  Scotland’s past and present through the lens of the people and places that form the bedrock of Scotch Whiskey. A Sense of Place is not a compilation of tasting notes or a recycled narrative

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Book Review: Dead Distillers: A History of the Upstarts and Outlaws Who Made American Spirits

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Dead Distillers stands apart in its easy to read format and telling of some more obscure, but interesting, figures of whiskey history. Though at times the book lacks broader context, and some of the original newspaper snippets seem to be shoehorned in after unrelated segments,  Spoelman and Haskell succeed in weaving an authentic narrative of

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