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Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit

WAYNE CURTIS in the WSJ. (An aside: In a recent home blind taste test the cheapest tied for first place. Here are the results: 1. Bulleit ($34.95)/Colonel E. H. Taylor Single Barrel ($67.99) 2. Rock Hill Farms ($52.99) 3. Angel’s Envy Barrel Selection ($46.99) 4. Parker’s Heritage Collection ($109.99)). ================= Bourbon whiskey has long been linked to a don’t-tread-on-me, do-it-yourself lifestyle. “Give…

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Bourbon, Neat

Michael Baruzzini‘s thoughts on Percy’s famous “ode” to Bourbon. (A companion piece is Luis Buñuel’s recipe for the perfect Martini mentioned in his autobiography and perhaps most famously in the film The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie — for another time). Not only should connoisseurs of bourbon not read this article, neither should persons preoccupied with the…

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The New Science of Old Whiskey

It seems that these days Wayne Curtis is the only worthwhile and consistently good contributor to The Atlantic. What are the perfect conditions for storing the barrels in which bourbon ages? It’s a question that no one had really asked before, despite the oft-noticed phenomenon that barrels situated near the windows in warehouses have a…