Dueling Grounds Distillery
June 2, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 84 °FFirst stop on our trip to Lexington, working on our Kentucky Bourbon Trail. Dueling Grounds.
First stop on our trip to Lexington, working on our Kentucky Bourbon Trail. Dueling Grounds.
This was a surprise! The name made us think it was going to be a small place... we came around the corner and there was rickhouse after rickhouse over many acres. Huge! And great bourbons.
Funkiest wine tasting we have ever done. lol Test tubes!
We felt a little guilty starting out at 9:00 am with a tasting... but we were far from the only folks there. lol
Lawrenceberg was very much that old, small town square.
This was much bigger and nicer than we expected. Really lovely tasting room and the guided tasting was really well done... even if the guy was a little pretentious.
All of our drives have been so pretty... a little windy and hilly sometimes, but very pretty.
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Interesting place and we got to sit for our tasting out by the moat.
We went from established, distinguished to very much scrappy start up. Admired the desire to bring bourbon back to the area known more for racehorses, but man was it scrappy. The elevator made oneRead more
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