Last summer we were invited by our New York publisher Workman to do a promotional tour for A Field Guide to Whisky. The route was planned beforehand and took us through a whopping 14 states in the following sequence - Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and last but not least South Carolina, where we live part of the year in the beautiful city of Charleston. In a mere four weeks we would digest more than 3,400 miles [5,500 km] of asphalt by car. Life on the road as we know it…
Heading south when still in Maryland, we decided to make a detour and visit George Washington’s restored distillery in Mount Vernon. Becky had an ulterior motive. She wanted…
