BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – for 6 August 2021, by Susan Reigler
The Garden & Gun Club at Stitzel-Weller Distillery
A new cocktail bar has just opened at the historic Stitzel-Weller Distillery in Shively. The Garden & Gun Club is located on the second floor of the building in which founder Julian “Pappy” Van Winkle had his office and that was modeled on Jefferson’s Monticello.
The bar is an extension of the Garden & Gun magazine brand licensed in partnership with Diageo, which now owns the distillery and its whiskeys – Blade and Bow, I.W. Harper, and the Orphan Barrel series as well as Bulleit bourbon and rye and other spirits.
In a prepared statement, Diageo president Steve Rust said, “There is no better place for this club – with its distinctively southern atmosphere that mixes old with new – than on the grounds of this historically significant distillery that also welcomes a new...
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