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Maker's Mark 'Heart Release' Bourbon Review

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Maker's Mark 'Heart Release' Bourbon Review

Like every wood-finished Maker's release, The Heart Series offers up a rich and complex nose featuring oak, chocolate, cinnamon and clove. Pastries, pie crust and fruit tarts made from all three doughs emerge laced with caramel and mocha.

Maker's Mark Bourbon recognizing 'Spirited Women' with Personalized, Limited-Edition Label for consumers

Maker's Mark Bourbon recognizing 'Spirited Women' with Personalized, Limited-Edition Label for consumers

Throughout the year, consumers can create a custom Maker's Mark gift for anyone with the brand's personalized label program.

Maker's Mark Cellar Aged Bourbon Review

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Maker's Mark Cellar Aged Bourbon Review

If you can find this bottle for a reasonable price, get it. If you're motivated spend unreasonably on stuff like this, you’re bound to find one. You’ll want to pour this bottle for friends who deserve a little spoiling. And this one will spoil any Maker’s fan for good.

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Maker’s Mark Launches ‘Cellar Aged’ Bourbon

The 2023 Cellar Aged release blends 11- and 12-year-old bourbons bottled at cask strength, but it’s about much more than the age statement on the bottle. It's about what's inside.

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Snickerdoodle, Snickerdoodle, Snickerdoodle – Bourbon & Banter Podcast #29

The 29th episode of the Bourbon & Banter podcast – Snickerdoodle, Snickerdoodle, Snickerdoodle – is now available for your listening and drinking pleasure. The holidays are right around the corner, so we’re camped out at the pie table. Y

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Wind Beneath My Wings – Bourbon & Banter Podcast #25

The 25th episode of the Bourbon & Banter podcast – Wind Beneath My Wings – is now available for your listening and drinking pleasure. No, we’re not channeling our inner Bette Midler. But we might be channeling some gas from all the bullshit we’ve consumed since our last episode.

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BBC’s Nally ponders slowing down after 50 years in distilling

Seeing Steve Nally in a suit and tie is unusual. Six-foot-four and broad-shouldered, the master distiller at Bardstown Bourbon Co. (BBC) has as good a frame for fine couture as any 71 year old.

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Rigorous testing is the norm for every Maker’s Wood Finishing Series

Referring to a pair of upcoming Wood Finishing Series fall 2022 releases, Jane Bowie, the brand’s director of innovation says, “These whiskeys will be further away from our normal taste profile than before. … With what we’ve done in the past, I believe we’ve earned the trust of consumers..."

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Maker’s Mark Unveils 2021 Limited Edition Wood Finishing Series Bourbons

Maker’s Mark® today announced the latest entry in the Maker’s Mark Wood Finishing Series with the launch of the Maker’s Mark Wood Finishing Series 2021 Limited Release: FAE-01.

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Maker’s Mark 2020 Limited Edition Wood Finishing Series Review

The first time I and a friend cracked a bottle of Maker’s Mark Cask Strength, he said, correctly, “This is what Maker’s Mark should have been all along. Why did they wait so long to release at this proof?” I agreed.

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Introducing Maker’s Mark Wood Finishing Series 2019 Limited Release: Stave Profile RC6

Maker’s Mark® today announced the launch of its first-ever nationally available limited-release bourbon, Maker’s Mark Wood Finishing Series 2019 Limited Release: Stave Profile RC6.

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Maker’s Mark Private Select Review: Randall’s Wine & Spirits

The Maker’s Mark Private Select program is one of the most impressive private selection programs in the country.

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Barrel Proof Blind Tasting

A few weeks ago some of my bourbon drinking friends and I were sitting around discussing our favorite drink. I know, shocking right? We started talking about what each of our favorites was. Some preferred wheated, one liked high rye, I like a lot of barrel proofs, etc.

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Maker’s Mark Private Select Reimagines Barrel Selection

Maker’s Mark is one of the most iconic bourbon brands of the modern age. Bill and Margie Samuels lead the way, post-prohibition, in bourbon marketing, tourism, and helping people outside of Kentucky rediscover quality bourbon.

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Marriott Hotels Bring the Bourbon

As bourbon has become increasingly sought after by both American and international travelers, Marriott Hotels has found a way to distinguish themselves from other upmarket hotels: best bourbon selection.

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Kentucky Bourbon Travel for the Uninitiated

Although the legal requirement for where bourbon can be produced specifies anywhere in the United States, the strongest presence of the American spirit comes from the Bluegrass state, Kentucky.

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Bourbon Bachelor: Pairing KFC’s Zinger Sandwich with Kentucky’s Finest

If honoring your calling is the only true way to live, then today is the first day I can say with certainty that I am alive. Because pairing fried chicken with bourbon is what I was born to do.

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Perfect Pairing – Maker’s Mark Kentucky Straight Bourbon & Ashton VSG Tres Mystique Sun Grown Petite Corona

THE BOURBON Since 1954, Maker’s Mark Kentucky Straight Bourbon has been one of the country’s best selling small batch bourbons. The mainstream bourbons are created with corn, malted barley, and rye. Maker’s Mark, on the other hand, is a ‘wheated’ bourbon.

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Maker’s 46 Bourbon Review

When I was first getting into bourbon people talked about how wheated bourbons were sweeter and softer than rye. This confused me because the only wheated bourbon I had tried was Maker’s Mark which I still think has one of the most fiery finishes out there.

Maker’s Mark Tastes Expensive | Bourbon Advertisement

Maker’s Mark Tastes Expensive | Bourbon Advertisement

It’s Friday. Time to wind down the week and open the bourbon cabinet for a few days and let it air out. No doubt many of you will be enjoying some Maker’s Mark this weekend. I thought this vintage ad would be perfect for you. “It tastes expensive…and is.” Pretty ballsy stuff for the time I imagine.