One day, we visited the Acres of Land Winery in Richmond and ate lunch. It was delicious, and they have a nice selection of wines and scrumptious entrees on the menu.
We traveled to Berea that afternoon to do some shopping at the many arts and crafts stores. Allison found a rather large chair to sit in, and the owner of the furniture store will make one for your house for $5000.
Kentucky is known for its Bourbon--an American whiskey. There are six historic distilleries in our area, but most were closed on New Year's Eve. However, Wild Turkey was open, so we ventured to Lawrenceburg, Kentucky and took a tour. It was interesting to learn how Bourbon is made.
We had a great tour guide who explained the entire process and answered questions.
Wild Turkey has built a new distillery, but we toured the old one since tours aren't happening yet in the new one.
The Bourbon is stored in barrels until it's ready.
Sometimes, the barrels leak.
Our tour guide let us taste some from the leaking barrel. It was rather strong.
When we returned to the visitor's center, we had a more formal tasting of the different kinds of Wild Turkey Bourbon. It's definitely an acquired taste.
In addition to seeing the distillery, it was a nice drive through the country parts of Central Kentucky.
