Buffalo Trace, Tom Moore leave distillers’ group, Bourbon Trail

Kentucky’s liquor landscape has become a little less blended.

The Sazerac Co., which owns Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort and Tom Moore Distillery in Bardstown, has withdrawn from the Kentucky Distillers’ Association.

Meredith Moody, director of marketing services for New Orleans-based Sazerac, said the move means the KDA will no longer promote the two distilleries on its popular Bourbon passport tourism program, but both distilleries will continue to do public tours.

“We’ve been a member of the KDA for many years … and after an evaluation decided it’s in the best interest of us to chart our own course, and promote the distilleries of Buffalo Trace and Tom Moore independently of the KDA,” Moody said Thursday.

“We are going to do our own thing for tourism promotion. We still feel that we are very much a part of the Bourbon Trail, we’re just no longer participating in the KDA’s program of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail’s Passport,” Moody said. “We still consider ourselves very much to be on the Bourbon Trail.”
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