Kentucky Bourbon Trail Tour

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 two working distilleries, a tasting, and time in the gift shops. We take two routes along the Kentucky Bourbon Trail: East and South.

ALL WOODFORD, ALL DAY TOUR
Cooperage is the art of barrel making, and it is still being practiced much as it was 200 years ago. Blue Grass Cooperage, founded in 1945, produces new American white oak barrels for the making of Jack Daniels and Woodford Reserve. Join us for a tour of Brown-Forman Cooperage and Woodford Reserve Distillery where you will see the artistry behind the creation of bourbon barrels and the bourbon too!

Bourbon Tour South

We visit two distilleries on our full day Bourbon Trail Tour.

• 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 an opportunity to purchase a 375ml. bottle of Maker's Mark Bourbon that each guest can seal by dipping their bottle 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.

Bourbon Tour East

We visit two distilleries on our full day Bourbon Trail Tour.

• Four Roses Distillery
  The architecture might make you think you are in wine country, but 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.

• Wild Turkey
  Premium Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey has been distilled on Wild Turkey Hill for generations. And, sitting on the crest of a hill that overlooks the Kentucky River, the Wild Turkey Distillery possesses an outward appearance as simple and unadorned as the traditional distilling methods used inside. The legendary Master Distiller Jimmy Russell watches over this time-honored process with a careful eye at every turn. While following the production process from grain delivery to bottling, you'll be able to see our unique 40-foot high column still, watch new bourbon being poured into hand crafted oak barrels and stroll through our timber warehouses.Make sure to stop by our gift shop to bring home a souvenir of your visit.

OTHER BOURBON COUNTRY TOURS AVAILABLE:

• 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.

Call us to book a Bourbon Trail Tour:  

Toll free: 866-986-8779 or Local: 502-583-1433