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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

“It’s not marketing, it’s the actual thing,” Thompson says. “At first it was this thing chefs were drinking. And there was this group of people and we were buying up all the Van Winkle we could. It ...

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 ...

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 ...