Thursday, May 30, 2013

Where the richest music nerds go to play: the High End show

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Every American should be required to tour the eight distilleries on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail before they are allowed to die. It’s got history (Buffalo Trace goes back to 1773!), free booze for mom and dad (don’t sleep on Woodford Reserve’s loaded truffles!), and kid stuff (Junior can seal his very own bottle of Maker’s in hot red wax!). The raw core of the USA is laid bare as tours unwind: Pioneering entrepreneurs exploited Kentucky’s limestone-filtered water reserves and brought prosperity to future generations, seeing the family businesses through the Civil War and prohibition to their current status as icons worth taking a three-hour tour of.


The most magical part of every tour is the sticky-sweet warehouse where...


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