As I was archiving some of my photos from 2008 to free up some hard drive space, I noticed this set from a tour of the Jack Daniel’s Distillery. For some reason I didn’t get around to processing them at the time, so I’m pleased to share them with you now – better late than never right?

Forget Opry Land, whenever it comes to a famous site in middle Tennessee I always tell people that the one place they should go is on the distillery tour. Lynchburg, TN, the city now famous for Jack’s best-selling No. 7, is about an hour and a half outside of Nashville, but the drive to get there is very scenic. It’s almost as though the area exists outside of time, uncongested by cars and buses and tall buildings, hidden away in untouched countryside. The location is key, as the company still uses the same spring that Jack himself found so many years ago to start it all. The process of creating a Tennessee whiskey is to slow drip the water through charred maple wood before it is treated and then aged in barrels. If you are able to get out to experience the tour for yourself, make sure to come with a working nose – the smell of the maple wood is something that I will cherish for a long time.