DRINK LOCAL
by Kentucky Monthly Magazine
SHAKERTOWN SPIRITS
South Union was the only Shaker village in America that made whiskey in the 19th century, inspiring us to unveil our own bourbon in December 2024.
Four-year straight bourbon whiskey, single barrel, non-filtered. A traditional Kentucky recipe with a dried fruit aroma and a milder caramel and oak flavor.
BY REBECCA REDDING
Whether you’re looking for a creative community connection or a place to work or relax in private, grab a cup of joe at one of these local shops.
Coffee Culture
While Kentucky is known for its bourbon culture, another drink has the love of many in our Commonwealth. Coffee shops across the state serve a variety of beverages. They also are gathering places for community groups and comfortable spots for people to relax and get creative. Known for being cozy and inviting, these places pull you inside, whether it’s for a quick to-go cup, a meeting or a place to work remotely for a few hours. Looking to sip and savor? There’s room for
FRANKFORT
Engine House Coffee
Located in downtown Frankfort in one of the oldest extant firehouses in Kentucky, constructed in 1868, Engine House Coffee offers seasonal drinks and features historical photos of the firehouse. enginehouse1868.com
VERSAILLES
The Amsden
This shop in historic downtown Versailles is always photo ready and decorated for the season. It recently opened a fun play space in the back for kids. theamsden.com
LEXINGTON
Third Street Stuff
With a focus on community, Third Street Stuff is an eclectic and colorful space filled with locally made goods for sale. Grab a cup of coffee and browse around. Check out its poetry series! thirdststuff.com
ELIZABETHTOWN + HODGENVILLE
Vibe Coffee
Coffee, waffles, acai bowls and more can be found in this gathering place with small-town charm. vibecoffeeshop.com
LOUISVILLE
Please and Thank You
CAVE CITY
Ace Coffee Co.
In the heart of the Mammoth Cave region, Ace Coffee Co. offers a full breakfast and lunch menu and transitions to a laidback bar at night. It also hosts workshops, music and events. acecoffeecafe.com
SLADE Daniel Boone Coffee Shop
The shop’s Facebook page claims, “HOT COFFEE. FRESH COOKIES. LOUD MUSIC. NO DECAF,” and that pretty much sums it up. Order cookies online; you won’t be sorry. wearepleaseandthankyou.com
OWENSBORO
Gramps Coffee and Donuts
For seriously delicious coffee and donuts with super friendly owners, stop by Gramps. If you visit in the morning, you may find Gramps reading the newspaper and talking to locals. grampscoffeeanddonuts.com
When one of the shop’s website tabs reads “Campground Registration,” you know it’s going to be a fun spot. Find breakfast, lunch and long drink menus before heading on a hike in the gorgeous Red River Gorge. danielboonecoffeeshop.com
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Kentucky Roasters
Monos Coffee Crafters Monos is a Nicholasville-based roasting facility and coffee shop combined. Coffee subscriptions are available! monoscoffeecrafters.com
High Bar Coffee Based in Lexington and located inside Southland Bagel, High Bar Coffee produces roasted beans available for purchase at several locations. highbarcoffee.com
Kentucky Mountain Coffee Company
Kentucky Mountain has roasted coffee in the heart of Eastern Kentucky since 2012. Some of the Johnson County establishment’s top sellers include Kentucky Bourbon Pecan and Coon Dog Run. kymtncoffee.com
Good Folks Coffee Company Based in Louisville, Good Folks roasts coffee for cafés, grocery stores, offices, restaurants and you. goodfolkscoffee.com
Quills Coffee Quills was founded in 2007 in Louisville’s Germantown neighborhood. Stop in one of its beautifully curated spaces. quillscoffee.com
Baxter’s Coffee Based in Somerset, Baxter’s has four locations to choose from. You can also find their coffee at some of our favorite places in Stanford. They sell K-Cups! baxterscoffee.com
LOUISVILLE + COVINGTON
Purrfect Day Cat Café
Drink coffee and play with cats—need we say more? Purrfect Day first opened in Louisville in 2018 with a mission to help shelters adopt out cats while offering a space for cat lovers to gather and participate in cat care. It has made a huge impact on the community and has become a popular hangout for customers of all ages. The menu includes coffee, treats and alcoholic options. Reservations are recommended.
purrfectdaycafe.com
NICHOLASVILLE
Luna’s Coffee, Wine and Butterfly Cafe
Coffee, wine and … butterflies? A perfect space for butterfly enthusiasts and plant lovers, Luna’s has a butterfly house where visitors can look to see if anything is fluttering. Be sure to check out Luna’s fun events and charcuterie boards.
lunascoffeewine.com
LOUISVILLE Witches Brew Coffee
This locally owned coffee shop offers tarot card readings, a specialty shop and witchy vibes. Try The Coconut Cauldron. Visit Witches Brew’s Facebook page to learn more.
Facebook: Witches Brew Coffee
Cold
This annual festival celebrates cold brew and the people who make it. Held in late summer, the festival includes tastings, competitions and lots of caffeine. facebook.com/coldbrewcoffeefestival Iced Vanilla
Cold Brew
¾ ounce vanilla syrup 1½ ounce half & half
6 ounces
cold-brew coffee
Garnishes: whipped cream and 2 chocolate Pocky sticks
Pour ice, vanilla syrup, half & half and cold brew in a cocktail shaker and shake until well combined. Strain over ice into a tall glass and garnish with whipped cream and chocolate Pocky sticks.
Recipe and photo courtesy of Carson’s Food & Drink, Lexington.
Lem’s Café Coffee Catering
Based in the Bourbon Capital of the World, Lem’s is a mobile café named after Nelson County Hall of Fame and My Old Kentucky Home banjo player Lem Reed. Lem’s can be found at local events, farmers markets and your next event. Learn more about the café and book online.
lemscafe.com
LEXINGTON
Brew Coffee Festival
BARDSTOWN
‘Every Pour Means More’
West End Gin owners Dr. Dawn Wade and Stacey Wade give back to their community with every bottle sold
BY JACKIE HOLLENKAMP BENTLEY
When Dawn and Stacey Wade said they want their new “passion project” to be a force for good, they meant it—so much so that in July 2024, they cut a check for $10,000 for Louisville’s West End School at the same time their project, West End Gin, officially launched.
Charged with a mission of “every pour means more,” $1 of the proceeds from each bottle of gin sold is donated back to the community. The Wades made that first donation even before
selling 10,000 bottles.
“We look for opportunities where it’s needed most, and we use our discretion to decide where it’s going to go,” Dawn said. “We knew that they were planning to build a girls’ school and trying to expand and do more things. The name was just fitting, of course. So, we gave our first gift to the West End School.”
The Wades—founders of the fastgrowing, Black-owned NIMBUS marketing agency—have long supported philanthropic efforts, but this time, they wanted a “public
benefit company” to help struggling communities thrive.
“[We] wanted to have a vehicle that would work full time for us but also—instead of talking about the change that needs to be made in our communities— developing a product and developing a company that’s a public benefit company that can actually take those proceeds and do exactly what a public benefit company is supposed to do,” Stacey said. “We wanted to … have a product that we really love and be able to hire people in that community and develop a product that could have a lasting presence. So, every pour means more.”
While the Wades have varying tastes in beverages, the couple share an appreciation for gin.
“We always look for gaps in the system that can be filled, and being here in Kentucky in bourbon country, it would be
crazy for us to try to push out a bourbon because one, we would have to age it or buy it,” Dawn said. “And two, we wanted to break through the news with something that would be disruptive.”
By “disruptive,” she explained that they’re making a spirit that’s not your grandfather’s gin.
“Most of us who had experiences with gin at an earlier time, you remember a gin smelling like a pinecone or a Christmas tree, or I always say, like rubbing alcohol. So, you had an immediate visceral reaction to it,” Dawn said. “We wanted you to feel like it was something that was fresh, that was new, that felt fresh, and not just the smell, but also the taste and the experience. So that’s the disruptive nature of what we mean.”
West End Gin is crafted with orange, juniper, coriander, cardamom, lemon peel, grapefruit peel, lemongrass, lemon verbena, jasmine, angelica root, orris root, grains of paradise and cassia.
West End recently released a new offering, The Rose Ann Edition. Named after each of their moms, the spirit includes rosebud petals and fenugreek.
“We have two sweet ladies and who they are and what they
represent in the Rose Ann version are really indicative of just who our mothers were,” Dawn said.
Rose and Ann raised a son and a daughter to become successful entrepreneurs, yet firmly rooted.
“I think in every community, it doesn’t matter where you’re at, people need help. I mean, we’re seeing that every single day,” Stacey said. “Why not have a product that can do just that, a company that works in that space?”
West End Gin and The Rose Ann Edition can be found in dozens of liquor stores across Louisville and Kentucky, as well as in Chicago and Washington, D.C. Stacey said
the spirit is distributed direct-toconsumer in 34 states.
To find a retailer or order from the website, visit westendgin.com.
Stacey (left) and Dawn Wade
CUSTOMIZED BOURBON
Visitors can create their own blends at these bourbon experiences
BY DEBORAH KOHL KREMER
Kentucky offers the unique opportunity to tour and visit bourbon distilleries across the Commonwealth. A new experience has emerged in the industry with the popularity of bourbon blending, which enables visitors to create their own personalized combination of flavors in one bottle.
The fundamentals of making bourbon—starting with federal standards of having 51 percent of corn in its mash bill, through the minimum two-year aging in a new
charred-oak barrel—are nonnegotiable. But those in the industry have found ways to customize bourbon-making by aging the spirit longer or changing the finishing process.
Several distilleries offer new experiences for visitors. We found three locations in Kentucky where guests can mix bourbons, varying the components, to come up with a blend that pleases their palates. Visitors who really like their custom blend can bottle it, personalize the label, and take it home.
WENZEL WHISKEY
Wenzel Whiskey in Covington is transforming a historic building into a distillery and plans to have its own bourbon on the shelves in about five years. Meanwhile, the owners have created an event space in the building next door, where they offer blending experiences. With bourbon sourced from other distillers across the country, visitors can create their own blend.
“Instead of having one DNA, we went and bought 10 barrels of this and 20 barrels of that and six barrels of this, so we have a variation,” said Bill Whitlow, brand ambassador for Wenzel Whiskey.
Whitlow explained that guests start the blending experience with the tools they need—blending glasses, a graduated cylinder and a whiskey thief—plus two Kentucky bourbons and two out-of-state bourbons at their disposal.
The guests then try different blends until they come up with a combination they really like.
Photos courtesy of Wenzel Whiskey
“There is a whole lot of trial and error,” Whitlow said. “We always say two great barrels don’t necessarily make one great bourbon.”
Whitlow said that Wenzel hosts many groups, and after individual guests do the blending, they have a friendly competition to choose the favorite of the group, and that is the one that is bottled for the group members to take home.
“Sometimes, guys on a bachelor party come in, create a blend, and then they serve it at the wedding,” he said. “It is a fun way to spend some time together.”
BARRELS & BILLETS
Barrels & Billets is a blending experience in downtown Louisville that uses its own bourbons, which include the original, called J. Frederick, along with the Home Plate Series: Lucky Lumber, Lead Off and Smokin’ Fastball. Did you catch the ties to America’s favorite pastime in these names? Bourbon & Billets is located beside the Louisville Slugger
Factory and Museum. Visitors taste the varieties and then blend their own bourbon, which they can have bottled to take home. Along the way, they learn about the connection between bourbon barrel wood and baseball bat wood. The location of Louisville Slugger on the street known as Whiskey Row is no accident.
J. MATTINGLY 1845 DISTILLERY
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As the crew members at J. Mattingly 1845 Distillery in Frankfort patiently wait for their bourbon to age, the distillery offers blending experiences with sourced bourbon.
“Our guests are surprised to realize that it is not as hard as it seems,” said Dakota Towles, head of blending experiences at J. Mattingly. “You hear about what distillers do and how complicated it is, but if you start out by using bourbon you already like, it is easy.”
The guest bourbon blenders choose from four mash bills—two local bourbons, a rye and an American light whiskey—and use the one they like best as their base. Towles said the fun part is adding other combinations to the base to come up with the most pleasing flavor. When they have decided on their finished product, they can truly make it their own by choosing the name that will be written on the label, the bottle shape, and the color of wax to seal it.
MICHAEL’S MOCKTAIL
2½ ounces strawberry limeade
1 ounce strawberry purée
½ ounce lemon juice
½ ounce lime juice
½ ounce simple syrup
Lemon-lime soda
Garnishes: half a lime and a strawberry
Stir together first five ingredients in a mixing glass with ice. Strain into an old-fashioned glass and add a splash of lemon-lime soda. Garnish with the rind of half a lime stuffed with a strawberry.
Recipe and photo courtesy of Dudley’s on Short, Lexington.
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MINDFUL MOCKTAILS
With the advent of the “sober curious” movement more than 10 years ago, people began to limit their alcohol intake, and in some cases, they gave it up altogether. In the intervening years, mixologists have offered more alcohol-free “mocktails” that have the all the flavor of cocktails but without the kick. These recipes offer some tasty and fun alcohol alternatives.
Recipe and photo courtesy of Dudley’s on Short, Lexington.
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BRANDL’S BRAMBLE
4-5 blackberries
¾ ounce lemon juice
½ ounce simple syrup
Sparkling water
Garnishes: fresh berries and mint sprig
Muddle blackberries in the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Add lemon juice, simple syrup and ice, and shake well. Strain into an old-fashioned glass over ice. Top with sparkling water and garnish with fresh berries and a mint sprig.
WHITE SANGRIA
Fresh fruit of your choice (e.g., lemon or orange wheel, blackberries or strawberries)
3 ounces Stella Rosa Peach Non-Alcoholic Wine
½ ounce orange juice
Splash of Sprite
Muddle fruit in the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Add ice, Stella Rosa and orange juice. Shake lightly and pour into a wine glass. Top with more ice and a splash of Sprite. Garnish with your choice of fruit.
Recipe and photo courtesy of Carson’s Food & Drink, Lexington.
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THE “SEMI” QUINTIESSENTIAL
PINK PONY
1½ ounce Monin raspberry syrup
1½ ounce grapefruit juice
1 ounce lime juice
Splash soda water
Garnish: lime slice
Add first three ingredients to a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake to combine and strain into a glass over ice. Add soda water and garnish with a lime slice.
Recipe and photo courtesy of The Jockey Bar, Lexington.
1½ ounces unsweetened iced tea
1 ounce lemon juice
1 ounce Asian Pear and Honey Simple Syrup (recipe follows)
Garnishes: lemon twist, cinnamon stick and ground cinnamon
Combine all ingredients with ice in a large mixing glass. Stir well and strain into an old fashioned glass over ice. Garnish with lemon twist, cinnamon stick and ground cinnamon.
ASIAN PEAR AND HONEY SIMPLE SYRUP
1 Asian pear, thinly sliced
1½ cups water
¾ cup sugar
¾ cup honey
3 cinnamon sticks
Add pears, water, sugar and honey to a large saucepan. In a dry sauté pan (no oil), toast cinnamon sticks over medium heat. When toasted, add to pear mixture. Cook over medium heat, stirring gently until sugar is dissolved. Turn heat to low and let cook 25 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool. Strain syrup into a glass bottle. Refrigerate for up to two weeks.
Recipe and photo courtesy of Dudley’s on Short, Lexington.
The winner of the Judges Choice Champion Award at the Lex250 Maker’s Mark Cocktail Competition, the spirited version of The “Semi” Quintiessential features Maker’s Mark bourbon instead of iced tea and was created by Dudley’s on Short bartender Shannon Morrison.
Kentucky’s wine history is nearly as old as the state itself with none other than U.S. founding father Benjamin Franklin tasking Swiss winemaker John James Dufour with searching out places in our fledgling nation best suited for winemaking. Dufour planted over 30 different wine grape varieties, but determined only two – the Alexander cape grape, and the Madiera grape – would thrive in Kentucky.
Kentucky statesman Henry Clay and other investors helped found the Kentucky Vineyard Society in 1799, purchasing over 600 acres ripe for cultivation right here in Jessamine County.
Tour, Taste, Enjoy
Visitors can hop on the Western Kentucky Wine Trail to experience the comeback of wine-making in the state
BY DEBORAH KOHL KREMER
History tells us that folks were making wine in Kentucky even before it was a state. Today, the Commonwealth is home to more than 70 wineries that produce everything from cabs to zins. Wine drinkers can find locally produced vino all across the state, but in Western Kentucky, they can grab a passport and hit the trail—the Western Kentucky Wine Trail. At any of the nine wineries, visitors can obtain a passport, get it stamped and, after a visit to all stops on the trail, be rewarded with a specialty stemless wine glass. Passports also are available at the tourism offices in that area.
Five tourism offices collaborated to create this trail, which kicked off in the summer of 2024.
“Everyone knows about Kentucky bourbon and the bourbon trail, but we also have an interesting history with wine,” said Madison Lindsey, marketing director at the Bowling Green Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Lindsey said the trail has been popular, with people coming for a weekend to visit several wineries at a time.
Poca Terra Winery
633 Gatlin Road, Benton
270.493.2682 pocaterrawinery.com
It began with a wooden wine press, a manual grape crusher and a wooden barrel that had been handed down through four generations. A grape-growing family tradition led owners John and Karen Hlinka to become winemakers. The couple began by planting Chambourcin vines, a FrenchAmerican hybrid that grows well in the Marshall County climate, and producing dry and semi-sweet wines in small batches. Today, visitors can see the historical equipment still used in the process at Poca Terra, which is Italian for “small land.”
Buckhorn Creek Vineyard
5957 Moors Camp Highway, Gilbertsville
270.703.5841 • buckhorncreekwines.com
Just a stone’s throw from the shores of Kentucky Lake, Buckhorn Creek Vineyard got its start when the owners planted their first grapevines in 2015. Today, the beautiful 30-acre farm offers white, red, fruit and bourbon barrel-aged wines. One of its most popular is the Tornado Red, a cabernet sauvignon that was aging in 2021 on the grounds when the Marshall County community was hit with a devastating tornado—hence the name.
Naimoli Estate
6000 Harmony Grove Road, Hopkinsville
270.839.3848 • naimoliestate.com
Wayne and Wendy Naimoli built a winery to resemble the wineries, vineyards and wine-tasting experiences they had enjoyed in Italy. With the backdrop of a gorgeous mansion and lush grounds, they have created a perfect wedding venue and an inviting destination where guests can sip and sample their estate wines.
Carriage House Vineyards
259 Longview Lane, Auburn • 270.893.3515 • carriagehousevineyards.com
Don and Lisa Davis established their winery in 2013 by planting eight varieties of grapes on 3 acres in Logan County. Today, the Davises welcome visitors to enjoy their selection of reds and whites, along with icy slushies that are popular in the summer.
Fancy Farm Vineyard and Winery 115 Hayden Street, Fancy Farm
fancyfarmvineyardandwinery.com
A few years ago, Tom Curtsinger challenged himself and some naysayers to grow European grapes in Western Kentucky. Today, Fancy Farm Vineyard and Winery is the result of his foresight and farming. The Graves County winery and vineyard cultivates seven grape varieties on 6 acres and serves a selection of wine varietals in its tasting room.
Bluegrass Vineyard
5016 Smiths GroveScottsville Road, Smiths Grove
270.853.1718
Bluegrass Vineyard began making small batches in 2009, followed by a hobby vineyard in 2013, which bloomed into a fullfledged business by 2017. Today, the 30-acre farm has rolling grounds of vines, a production facility and an inviting tasting room with a sunny patio. Visitors can choose from a variety of fruit and specialty wines at this female-owned business that uses solar panels to produce the energy to run the entire winery.
Traveler’s Cellar Winery
3220 Fuqua Road, Rockfield • 270.846.9463
travelerscellarwinery.com
Situated on 5 lush acres, Traveler’s Cellar is a boutique vineyard and winery near Bowling Green. Owners Derrick and Deserea Huff have traveled extensively and studied food and wine making all over the world. They now produce their own award-winning wines in Warren County.
Reid’s Livery Winery
430 Nealy Road, Alvaton 270.779.6313 • reidsliverywinery.com
Raising grapes, berries and horses (it is Kentucky, after all), Reid’s Livery Winery produces wines and equines on its Warren County farm. Owner Rex Reid invites folks to try his 17 wines and spend some time among the vines and the animals.
Purple Toad Winery
4275 Old U.S. Hwy. 45 South, Paducah
270.554.0010
purpletoadwinery.com
Purple Toad owners June and Allen Dossey fell in love with the idea of owning a winery following a trip to Napa Valley in the 1990s. They began by planting 2,500 vines on their McCracken County property and transformed it into a vineyard. The winery opened in 2009 and today produces a huge selection of wines, including its most popular, Black and Bruised, a red wine made from blackberries and Concord grapes.
A Little Wine History ...
After the American Revolutionary War, John James Dufour of Switzerland heard French soldiers complain about the lack of good wine in America. He crossed the Atlantic and began his quest to make good wine. He brought his knowledge of growing grapes and vinting and eventually proposed the creation of a Kentucky Vineyard Society, which was recorded in the Kentucky Gazette on Jan. 17, 1798. Lexington’s Henry Clay became a subscriber and worked as the society’s attorney.
Dufour planted 5 acres of grapes in the spring of 1799 on the Kentucky River southwest of Lexington. Just a few years into the endeavor, the vines were not producing enough grapes, so he moved his venture west.
The Kentucky Department of Agriculture says Kentucky was one of the leading grape- and wine-producing states in the latter half of the 19th century. Grape and wine production in Kentucky ended with Prohibition, but the industry bounced back starting in the mid-1990s. Today, Kentucky has more than 113 grape producers and more than 60 small-farm wineries, the KDA says.
kentucky wineries
PURPLE TOAD WINERY + DISTILLERY
At family-owned and -operated Purple Toad Winery & Distillery, visitors are treated to tours of the facility and tastings of its many wines and spirits. Purple Toad also offers elegant event space for weddings, anniversary parties, and other special celebrations.
MORE TO EXPLORE...
Chenault Vineyards chenaultvineyards.com 2284 Barnes Mill Road, Richmond 859.328.7773
Equus Run Vineyards
Saddlestone Distillery equusrunvineyards.com 1280 Moores Mill Road, Midway
Logan Vineyards Winery LoCo Wines
LoganVineyards.com 254 Hopewell Road, Harrodsburg
McIntyre & Family Winery
Facebook: McIntyreand Family Winery LLC 585 McIntyre Lane, Bardstown
HOURS: MON-SAT 10:30AM–6PM SUN 1PM–6PM Tastings available! NEW MOONSHINE
purpletoadwinery.com 4275 Old US Hwy. 45 S, Paducah 270.554.0010
Poca Terra Winery pocaterrawinery.com 633 Gatlin Road, Benton 270.493.2682
StoneBrook Winery stonebrookwinery.com 6570 Vineyard Lane, Melbourne 859.635.0111
Talon Winery talonwine.com 7086 Tates Creek Road, Lexington 859.971.3214
400 Gordon Lane, Shelbyville 502.633.6969
boozy books
Grab a bourbon and a good book. Here are a few of our favorites.
A handy guide by Colin Spoelman, The Bourbon Drinker’s Companion takes readers on a spirited journey to Kentucky bourbon country distilleries and beyond— even as far as the West Coast. Raised in the Bluegrass State, the author now resides in New York, where he is the co-founder and owner of a craft distillery. The book includes illustrations to help explain the distilling process, mash bills and types of stills. Spoelman covers the history of distilling and includes tasting guides for various whiskeys, bourbons and ryes.
Published by Harry N. Abrams, the hardcover retails for $29.99.
Louisville resident Robert R. Mohr covers a great deal of territory in America’s Spirit: A History of Bourbon, the People Who Pioneered It and Its Rise from the Ashes of Prohibition, Flavor Basics, and Classic Cocktail Recipes. The book details the history of bourbon, along with the art and craft of its distillation. It also covers the cultural impact of bourbon, offers tips on touring distilleries, includes a tasting guide, and provides cocktail recipes using the iconic spirit.
Published by School of Wine and Spirits, the hardcover retails for $29.99.
More books to pore over after pouring yourself a nip:
Novelist Eric Goodman delves into historical fiction with Mother of Bourbon: The Greatest American Whiskey Story Never Told based on the life of Mary Dowling, a daughter of Irish immigrants who settled with her husband in Tyrone near Lawrenceburg. Written with Rabbit Hole distillery founder and CEO Kavah Zamanian, who launched the Mary Dowling Whiskey Company in partnership with Pernod Ricard in 2023, Mother of Bourbon is the story of a strong, savvy businesswoman. Dowling met with resistance as a distillery owner in the late 19th and early 20th centuries due to her gender, yet her persistence and determination propelled her to success.
Published by Post Hill Press, the hardcover retails for $30.
• The Bourbon Journey: Kentucky Travel Guide by Mark E. Meade
• Bourbon Lore: Legends of American Whiskey by Mason Walker and Clay Risen, with photographs by Darren Higgins
• The Whiskey Sour: A Modern Guide to the Classic Cocktail by Jeanette Hurt
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Drink
BLUEGRASS
Coles 735 on Main 735 East Main Street Lexington, 859.266.9000 coles735main.com
Cypress + Oak 106 East Broadway Street Frankfort, 502.729.2711 cypressandoakky.com
Giuseppe’s Ristorante 4456 Nicholasville Road Lexington, 859.272.4269 giuseppeslexington.com
Holly Hill Inn
426 North Winter Street Midway, 859.846.4732 hollyhillinn.com
EASTERN
Local Honey
300 North Main Street
London, 606.657.5964 localhoneylondonky.com
Romero’s 2 Main Street
Mt. Sterling, 859.520.3075 romeroskentucky.com
Tomcat Bourbon & Brew House 2018 29th Street
Ashland, 606.420.4425 bourbonandtomcat brewhouse.com
610 MAGNOLIA
Bell House Restaurant 721 Main Street
Shelbyville, 502.437.5678 bellhouserestaurant.com
Lobby Bar & Grill at The Brown Hotel 335 West Broadway Louisville, 502.583.1234 brownhotel.com/dining
Jack Fry’s
1007 Bardstown Road Louisville, 502.452.9244 jackfrys.com
Old Talbott Tavern
107 West Stephen Foster Avenue, Bardstown 502.348.3494 talbotttavern.com
Repeal Oak Fired Steakhouse 101 West Main Street Louisville, 502.716.7372 repeallouisville.com
NORTHERN
Pompilio’s
LOUISVILLE
610 Magnolia
610 West Magnolia Avenue Louisville, 502.636.0783 610magnolia.com
600 Washington Avenue Newport, 859.581.3065 pompilios.com
Tousey House Tavern 5963 North Jefferson Steet Burlington, 859.586.9900 touseyhouse.com
SOUTHERN
440 Main 440 East Main
Bowling Green, 270.793.0450 440main.com
The Chalet 100 Chapel Drive Somerset, 606.451.9000 thechaletgourmet.com
Hickory & Oak 705 State Street, Unit 54 Bowling Green, 270.715.9268 hickoryandoakbg.com
WESTERN
The Crowded House 26 West Center Street
Madisonville, 270.825.1178 thecrowdedhouseky.com
freight house 330 South Third Street Paducah, 270.908.0006 freighthousefood.com
Farmer and Frenchman
Winery & Café 12522 U.S. 41 Robards, 270.748.1856 farmerandfrenchman.com
Patti’s 1880’s Settlement 1793 J.H. O’Bryan Avenue Grand Rivers, 270.362.8844 pattis1880s.com
