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Kentucky Bourbon Inventory Reaches 40-Year High

Kentucky’s inventory of aging Bourbon hit a 40-year high of 5.67 million barrels last year, according to the Kentucky Distillers’ Association (KDA). Continue reading →

Posted in News on July 7, 2015

News Briefs for January 16, 2014

•The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed an earlier District Court ruling and reinstated Kentucky’s ban on wine and spirits sales at grocery stores, gas stations and other retailers. Continue reading →

Posted in News on January 16, 2014

Federal Judge Says Kentucky’s Ban On Wine And Spirits In Grocery Stores Is Unconstitutional

U.S. District Court Judge John G. Heyburn II wrote in an opinion issued Monday that Kentucky’s decades-old law allowing wine and spirits sales in drugstores but not in grocery stores and gas stations is unconstitutional under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Continue reading →

Posted in News on August 15, 2012

Wine Thrives In Bourbon Country

John Johnson launched The Wine Rack retail shop in Louisville, Kentucky eight years ago with the idea of converting whiskey drinkers to wine. Continue reading →

Posted in News on August 11, 2011

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