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(CNN) — When WhistlePig's Boss Hog IV "The Black Prince" rye whiskey won "best in show" at the prestigious 2017 San Francisco World Spirits Competition, it dominated a field of whiskeys from around the globe.
Follow that $499 bottle back home and you'll find a picturesque farm in Vermont, where country roads are lined with red barns and apple orchards. It's an idyllic and mostly rural landscape, and a far cry from the whiskey powerhouses of Scotland, Ireland, Japan and Kentucky.
In recent years, Vermont has seen a quiet craft distilling revival, and the state's bars are lined with locally made bottles. But they're not always what they seem.
http://www.cnn.com/travel/article/ve...es-whistlepig/
Follow that $499 bottle back home and you'll find a picturesque farm in Vermont, where country roads are lined with red barns and apple orchards. It's an idyllic and mostly rural landscape, and a far cry from the whiskey powerhouses of Scotland, Ireland, Japan and Kentucky.
In recent years, Vermont has seen a quiet craft distilling revival, and the state's bars are lined with locally made bottles. But they're not always what they seem.
http://www.cnn.com/travel/article/ve...es-whistlepig/