Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
Sportswriter Wright Thompson spent parts of three years with Julian Van Winkle III, grandson of Julian "Pappy" Van Winkle, whose family bourbon is among the most sought-after whiskeys in America. His 2020 book follows Julian's effort to protect the Van Winkle name after the family sold the Stitzel-Weller distillery, and it becomes a meditation on fathers and sons, the American South and the things worth preserving, as Thompson reflects on his own family in Mississippi.
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