Maker's Mark

Maker's Mark.  It was the best of the best as far as tours go.  I am sorry it is last because you are probably so tired of my Kentucky Bourbon Trail pictures and stories.  But don't pass this one up.  It was fantastic!

The trip just finding this place was amazing.  We just kept trusting our GPS and finally, well, there we were.  In the middle of far out nowhere Kentucky was the beautiful distillery.  It made us think that maybe it got it's beginnings in the old Moonshine days???  Very out of the way place.  But just look at the beauty.  I don't have room and you don't have the patience to look at all my pictures so I have chosen some to depict each aspect.

The buildings were all painted dark brown with red shutters.  It really was stunning. (Some of these pictures you just NEED to click on to see the large one.  Much better.)

We got to see the workings of filling the bottles, putting the labels on, dipping them in the hot red wax and then boxing them up to go.

It is hard to see here but the labels are going on.

We loved watching these ladies dip the bottles in the wax.  They didn't seem to mind at all that there were 25-30 people watching them work.

Here you can see the wax sealing the bottle.  It is their trademark.

Just look at all the bourbon! 

Each of the distilleries had lovely warehouses that smelled oh, so good!

The tasting room here was just the best.  It was all the color of bourbon and the glasses sparkled in the bourbon colored light.  How could you not love it?

This was very serious business!

CHEERS!