OCTOBER IS JACK DANIEL’S BBQ!The world is watching Lynchburg, Tennessee for one weekend this month. It’s the annual Jack Daniel’s International Barbecue Competition, the most prestigious of them all and the one with real meaning. There’s a cash purse for the winners and the competition is ferocious but friendly. Thousands from all over the world come to this historic city between Nashville and Chattanooga to tour the historic distillery, listen to Bluegrass, watch the great grillers from America and many other countries prepare pork, chicken, beef and more. Serving as a judge each year is our own American gourmet Doc Lawrence who describes “The Jack,” as it’s known, “my favorite festival, the core celebration of Southern hospitality showcasing great barbecue.”
Doc will be headquartered at Parish Patch Farm and Inn in Normandy, Tennessee the beautiful resort in the rolling hills along the Duck River. “David and Claudia Hazelwood have one of the South’s finest treasures for visitors,” says Doc. PICASSO IN ATLANTAAtlanta’s High Museum of Art unveiled Picasso to Warhol, exhibiting approximately 100 works of art created by 14 of the most iconic artists from the 20th century: Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Constantin Brancusi, Piet Mondrian, Fernand Léger, Marcel Duchamp, Giorgio De Chirico, Joan Miró, Romare Bearden, Alexander Calder, Jackson Pollock, Louise Bourgeois, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol. The exhibition is one of the largest concentrations of modern art masterpieces to ever be exhibited in the southeastern United States, an event viewers will always cherish. Click here for a preview of this exhibition.
KENTUCKY JOURNEY
We visited the Civil War sites in beautiful Kentucky. Places like Danville, Bowling Green, Perryville and many others and you’ll read about Doc’s intensive journey in the Bluegrass state, following the childhood paths of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis along with the raids and battles of John Hunt Morgan. Doc paid a special visit to the grave of Bennett H. Young in Louisville, who, almost 150 years ago led Kentuckians to raid St. Albans, Vermont from Montreal.
And, then there’s Doc’s dinners at Louisville’s Vencinzo’s and the Seelbach Hotel’s Oak Room, both gourmet legends, plus an evening with Bourbon Hall of Fame member Michael Veitch at The Filson Bourbon Academy and an unforgettable afternoon with the incomparable Jimmy Russell, Wild Turkey’s Master Distiller, tasting his signature Bourbons.
All this and more is in the October Wines Down South, our adventure into the fall season with a preview of the upcoming holidays Down South. Visit us at (click) and get ready for an October to remember. |
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