Franklin, TN: A Favorite New Destination

"I tracked down the bourbon that had wowed me at TravelCon at H. Clark, a distillery whose tasting room sits in an unassuming building farmers once used to store grain; it’s not the kind of distillery you might typically expect—there is a still, but the setup is humble. One of its founders, Heath Clark, was a lawyer in 2008 who decided to distill his own bourbon and successfully lobbied for a 2009 law letting counties choose to be wet or dry, a change that helped rebirth Tennessee’s bourbon business and spurred a craft-distillery boom. I visited H. Clark during a countryside tour, depleted my limited supply long ago, and returned two years later when it was operating as Company Distilling." - Matthew Kepnes