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Three Kentucky bourbon tour experiences at our family-owned distillery in Bardstown — from a 75-minute guided walk through the rickhouse to a half-day private barrel-pick with our master distiller. We're a stop on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, thirty-five minutes south of Louisville.
75 minutes
$25 per guest
Our signature guided walk — from the mash tuns and copper pot stills to the rickhouse, ending with a four-pour flight of our core Kentucky bourbon lineup.
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90 minutes
$60 per guest
A deeper tasting experience for serious bourbon drinkers. Compare two single-barrel bourbons against the same small-batch base, with our master distiller walking through char level, mash bill and rick position.
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Half day · 4 hours
From $1,200 per group of 6
The full master-distiller experience. Walk the rickhouse, thief samples from six candidate single barrels, and select the cask you want bottled under your name — either for a private collection or a retailer pick.
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Every Bourbon & Oak tour starts inside the working distillery — not a recreated museum stop. You'll see the actual fermenters bubbling with sour mash, smell the new-make spirit running off the copper still, and walk between rows of active aging barrels in our nine-story rickhouse. Your guide is either a member of the distillery team or, on the higher-tier tours, the master distiller herself.
Tastings are seated, paced, and led — never rushed. You'll learn to nose bourbon properly, why proof matters, and how the same mash bill produces wildly different bourbons depending on rick position. Read the master distiller's full barrel-selection guide to preview what the Single Barrel Tasting covers.
All tours are by reservation only — we cap groups at twelve guests for the Heritage Tour and six for everything above. The Private Barrel Pick books two to three months in advance. Email support@bourbonoaklover.com or use the contact form to request a tour date.
Directions, parking and what else is worth seeing in town are on the Bardstown visitor page. Driving down for the day? Getting here from Louisville covers the route and how to plan the trip.
We're at 1876 Oak Barrel Lane, Bardstown, KY 40004 — five minutes off the Bluegrass Parkway. Bardstown sits at the geographic center of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, making us an easy half-day trip from Louisville (35 min), Lexington (90 min), Cincinnati (2.5 hours) or Nashville (3 hours).
Plan a longer visit by pairing our tour with Visit Bardstown's curated itineraries — there are eleven other working bourbon distilleries within a twenty-five mile radius.