Tours & Tastings
Experience the truest expression of Woodford Reserve at our historic distillery in Versailles, KY.
Due to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet’s Interstate 64 Bridge Replacement Project in Franklin County, please allow for additional travel time to Woodford Reserve Distillery.
Woodford Reserve's Path to Flavor Tour
Join us for a guided experience through the Distillery grounds that explores our history, how we’re unique at all five sources of flavor, and much more. At the end of the tour, guests 21 and over can taste our award-winning craft bourbon.
For this tour, we are booking out 3 months in advance. Please check back within 3 months of your date of preference.
No waitlist option available
All reservations must be made online.
The Spectacle for the Senses Tasting
Don't have time for a full tour? Join us for our Family of Brands tasting! This experience is a 30 minute guided tasting with five samples of our award-winning Family of Brands. With over 200 flavor notes to discover, every sip of Woodford Reserve is a spectacle of the senses. How many can you find?
This is a tasting-only experience. No tour included.
*Bourbon and whiskey samples will be on rotation, pending availability of products.
No waitlist option available
All reservations must be made online.
VIP Master Distiller Tour Experience
For the ultimate Woodford Reserve fan! Join Master Distiller Emeritus Chris Morris and/or Master Distiller Elizabeth McCall on a two-hour behind-the-scenes tour of the Distillery, Lab, Warehouse, and ending a Family of Brands tasting. Each ticket includes a limited edition bottle. This experience is limited to 8 guests and is only offered as our distiller's schedules permit.
No waitlist option available
All reservations must be made online.
Innovation Inspired Tour and Tasting
Woodford Reserve is the home of innovation, where we push the creative bounds of our award-winning bourbons and whiskies. This experience includes a full distillery tour highlighting our five sources of flavor and ends with an extra special tasting of our innovative line up. The four samples included in this experience are the Bourbon, Distillery Series, Master's Collection, and Woodford Reserve Baccarat Edition. Each guest will also leave with a Woodford Reserve branded glass.
No waitlist option available
Offered Saturdays at 11:00, max 14 people per experience.
Mixology Experience
Enjoy a journey through the rich history of the Old Fashioned cocktail. Guests will learn and make various Old Fashioned cocktail recipes using the Woodford Reserve family of whiskies while learning the origins of the Old Fashioned and how it is intrinsically tied to the Woodford Reserve Distillery. Guests will also receive a Woodford Reserve double Old Fashioned rocks glass, recipes for all of our signature Woodford Reserve Old Fashioned cocktails and Woodford Reserve Bourbon Balls.
* For ticket refunds, we ask for a 24 hour notice before experience start time. For groups of 10 or more we need 14 day notice before experience start time for a refund.