BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – for 4 December 2020, by Susan Reigler
Woodford Reserve Winter 2020 Master’s Collection: Very Fine Rare Bourbon
I have a fond memory of the very first Woodford Reserve Master’s Collection release. The year was 2003 and the legendary R.W. “Johnny” Apple, Jr. of the New York Times was in Louisville to write about our local restaurant gems. He had quoted me, as the restaurant critic and beverage writer at the Courier-Journal, in an article in the NYT about bourbon, and so the role as his culinary tour guide fell to me.
One of our stops was lunch at the corporate headquarters of Brown-Forman and while Johnny was confabbing with the B-F execs, I was treated to a tasting at the Bourbon Street Café bar (that’s the very elegant company commissary) of the first release of a new limited edition series – Woodford Reserve Master’s Collection Four Grain.
That...
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