Standing at the edge of Patoka Lake in the southern reaches of Indiana, I gaze through a scrim of oaks toward the sparkling blue-gray water, its hue affected in part by a cloud-speckled cerulean sky. The glassy surface of the lake, unruffled by wind or waves, is as reflective as a mirror and stretches toward the far shore where it rises to low hills framed by an unbroken, leafy canopy of .
December 18, 2020
(FRENCH LICK) – Wall Street Journal Best Selling author and Bourbon authority, Fred Minnick, deemed Spirits of French Lick’s Lee W. Sinclair 4 Grain Bottled in Bond Bourbon as his top pick for Best Non-Kentucky Bourbon of 2020.
Spirits of French Lick released its Lee W. Sinclair Bottled in Bond in Summer 2020, in the midst of the pandemic. Having turned four years old this year, the plan was to hold a release party for both the Sinclair and their Bottled in Bond High Rye Bourbon, The Mattie Gladden. A statewide shutdown changed those plans, but Spirits of French Lick continued with their much-anticipated release and debuted their Lee W. Sinclair 4 Grain bourbon in July.