America's only native spirit is waiting for your visit! Mint Julep Tours takes you to "Bourbon Country" for an unforgettable experience. Included is a tour of the working distilleries, a tasting, and time to shop the gift shops. We take two routes along the Kentucky Bourbon Trail: East and South.
Bourbon Tour South
You have a choice of Two Distilleries
Maker's Mark Distillery
This distilling village is a picture-postcard setting with more than 350 plant species represented on the arboretum-like grounds. Tours go through several of the perfectly painted, residence-like buildings and picturesque grounds. It was opened as a gristmill and distillery in 1805. The tour includes a tasting and a 375ml. bottle of Maker's Mark Bourbon, each guest may seal their bottle by dipping it in a small vat of hot Red Wax for a take home gift.
Heaven Hill Distillery
This tour includes a 10,000-square-foot new heritage center that opened in 2004. This distillery focuses its tour on one warehouse providing details on the aging process. There are 20,000 barrels in this warehouse stacked in an 'open-rick' system. The bar-in-the-round named the 'tasting barrel' offers tasting of both Evan Williams Single Barrel and 18 year old Elijah Craig.
Jim Beam Distillery
The world's largest bourbon distiller provides a tour and viewing of a short movie. Guests will enjoy a tasting of Bourbon made by the Beam's seventh generation master distiller.
This is a 6 hour tour. The cost is $119.00 per guests and includes transportation, guide, tips and admissions.
Bourbon Tour East
You have a choice of Two Distilleries
Buffalo Trace Distillery
This distillery dates back more than 200 years and was recently named to the National Historic Register. It stands on the site of an ancient buffalo trace, a pathway across the Kentucky River. Buffalo Trace has won more international awards in the last decade than any other distillery. Blanton's, the first single-barrel bourbon, is made there. A tasting of bourbon will be served.
Four Roses Distillery
The breathtaking Spanish Mission-style architecture might make you think you are in a different country! The tour at this site focuses on the distillation process. A 45-foot-tall copper column "beer still" and 16,000 gallon, red cypress fermentation tanks add class to this National Register of Historic Places facility built in 1911. A tasting of bourbon will be served.
Woodford Reserve Distillery
Established in 1812 along Glenns Creek, this distillery was for years known as Labrot & Graham Distillery. It was purchased by Brown-Forman and reopened in 1996 as a showpiece with copper pot stills, cypress-wood fermenters, tracks for rolling barrels to storage, and other anachronisms that help you imagine 19th century whiskey-making.
A tasting will be served.
This is a 6 hour tour. The cost is $119.00 per guests and includes transportation, guide, tips and admissions.