Let’s start with your first memory of drinking Kentucky bourbon. I got into it like so many people who grew up in the Southern United States, I think, stealing it from my father’s liquor cabinet after ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Pappy Van Winkle wasn’t always the most sought-after bourbon in the world. In fact, the Van Winkle family would have faded from the distilling business altogether were it not ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By J. D. Biersdorfer PAPPYLAND A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last By Wright ...

As a journalist said of Pappy Van Winkle, "You could call it bourbon, or you could call it a $5,000 bottle of liquified, barrel-aged unobtanium." Julian Van Winkle, the third-generation head of his ...

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When it came time to bid farewell to my friend Jenn, who left Louisiana in August to resettle in New York, I pillaged the dusty back corners of my liquor shelves for the bottle of Pappy Van Winkle’s ...

Once upon a time during my checkered career as a newspaperman, I wrote a column about absinthe, the licorice-flavored green spirit enjoyed by Hemingway and Picasso but shrouded in mystery about its ...

“Pappyland” will turn off as many people as it attracts, because its greatest strength is also its most irritating weakness. His name is Michael Cariglio, who stars as Pappy Drewitt. In granny glasses ...

Well into retirement, Mike Cariglio retains Pappy’s energy and spark. Fact is, the artist who played Pappy Drewit on PBS seems more peppy than Pappy these days. In the 1990s, with his suspenders and ...

Legendary ESPN reporter Wright Thompson joins Andrew to discuss his new book, Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon and the Things That Last. In listening to this episode, you’ll learn that ...