An Instant New York Times Bestseller
As a journalist said of Pappy Van Winkle, "You could call it bourbon, or you could call it a $5,000 bottle of liquified, barrel-aged unobtanium." Julian Van Winkle, the third-generation head of his family's business, is swarmed wherever he goes, with people wanting him to sign their bottles of Pappy Van Winkle Family Reserve. Pappyland is the story of how Van Winkle, the caretaker of the most coveted Kentucky Bourbon whiskey in the world, fought to protect his family's heritage and preserve the taste of his forebears, in a world where authenticity, like his product, is in very short supply.