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Distilleries, families and the bottles behind them.
The Buffalo Trace Story: From River Crossing to Bourbon's Most Wanted
The history of Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky: the buffalo crossing, E.H. Taylor Jr., George T. Stagg, Prohibition, Blanton's, the 1999...
Casa Maestri: A Family Distillery in the Town of Tequila
The story of Casa Maestri, the woman-led family distillery in Tequila, Jalisco (NOM 1438): two distilling families, a 2008 move from Houston,...
The Bottled-in-Bond Act of 1897: How Whiskey Got Its First Guarantee
Before 1897, a lot of "whiskey" wasn't. How Colonel E.H. Taylor and the Bottled-in-Bond Act gave drinkers a label they could trust.
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