![]() ![]() ![]() Bunning’s resolution linked bourbon with such noble notions as “family heritage, tradition and deep-rooted legacy,” yet he suggests the driving force behind the proposal was not high-minded patriotism but a lobby, and the ultimate force behind the lobby was filthy lucre. Jim Bunning is better remembered as a Major Leaguer who pitched both a perfect game and a perfect inning: nine strikes to three batters.)Īs the reader might infer, the author is something of an iconoclast. That virtually all the old gents pictured on new brands of bourbon bottles are frauds, the inventions of slick marketers, the new millennium’s snake oil salesmen.Īnother thing: Back in 1964 the Congress of these United States, by an official act, declared that bourbon is “a distinctive product of the United States,” enabling some of its noisier advocates to call it the national drink, “America’s Native Spirit.” A generation later, a senator from the great state of Kentucky (of course) sponsored a bill to establish “National Bourbon Heritage Month.” (Sen. ![]() That bourbon does not ipso facto come from Kentucky it can come from anywhere in America so long as it’s at least 51 percent corn liquor, and has been aged in charred new oak barrels, which process instills bourbon’s unique olfactory spectrum of aromatics and flavors. Indeed, there is much to learn in “Bourbon Empire: The Past and Future of America’s Whiskey”: That to be bourbon, a whiskey must be made mostly from corn. ![]()
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