Urban Bourbon Tour with Eric Wood

Breakfast at the hotel and depart for a full day bourbon experience with exclusive, private tours.

Our first stop is the historic Stitzel-Weller Reserve where we will learn about the past, present and future of bourbon. It’s a distillery drenched in the rich history of Bourbon’s past that’s pushing the boundaries with innovations for the future. Walk in the footsteps of bourbon legends, as you step into an active barrel house, cooper shop and micro still-house. Your journey ends with a tasting of Bulleit Bourbon, Bulleit 10-year-old, I.W. Harper NAS and Blade & Bow.

Enjoy a delicious lunch at Louisville’s Premier Riverfront Dining Destination, River House. Famed Louisville chef and restauranteur, John Veranese, focuses on the smallest details in serving high quality cuisine using only the freshest local ingredients. Varanese’s eclectic menu boasts an array of options from stuffed grape leaves, and fried green tomato salad, to new signature entrées: the Bourbon Barrel Smoked Pork Chop, and Caramelized Orange Bourbon Salmon.

Afternoon tour and tastings at the Kentucky Artisan Distillery, the home of the Jefferson’s Bourbon brand, as well as Whiskey Row Bourbon and Billy Goat Strut. This hands-on on tour gets you up close and personal the equipment used and every step in the distillery process, wherein every drop of bourbon is still made by hand almost exactly like it was 200 years ago.

We then head over to Angel’s Envy Distillery for an insider’s tour and hands-on private mixology and cocktail class. Experience the first full-production urban distillery on Main Street along Whiskey Row, and learn how to mix up the best cocktails with the pros, putting you behind the distillery bar and enjoy top-shelf shelf charcuterie.

Breakfast at the hotel and on to Buffalo Trace distillery for a private tour and tastings. Throughout the challenges of floods, fires, tornadoes and even Prohibition, the American family-owned distillery has never compromised. Buffalo Trace, like all bourbon distilleries, carefully guards its unique mash bill–its secret combination of corn, rye, and malted barley. In addition to its flagship bourbon, Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, the distillery produces other finely crafted bourbons including Blanton’s, W.L. Weller, Old Charter, and Eagle Rare. A variety of bourbon tours cover the history of the distillery (there has been a working distillery on the grounds since 1787) and the differences between whiskey and bourbon. You’ll get to visit the hand bottling hall and a century-old aging warehouse.

Our next stop is the Mill Ridge Horse Farm, a full-service thoroughbred farm located in the heart of Central Kentucky for our first taste of this region’s pastime and then on to spend the afternoon at the races at the Keeneland Racetrack. Tradition, beauty and world-class Thoroughbreds make Keeneland racing a spectacle to behold. For more than eight decades, the best horses, owners, jockeys and trainers have converged at Keeneland each April to compete in “racing as it was meant to be.”

Enjoy a Farewell Dinner at the modern steakhouse, Brooklyn & The Butcher, offering small plates and BIG STEAKS!