Bourbon Review - Isaiah Morgan Distillery, Summersville, WV
Outside of Summersville is a small distillery and winery, Kirkwood Winery and Isaiah Morgan Distillery . which sells rye, moonshine, and bourbon in addition to an exceptionally wide selection of sweet wines - although they no longer sell mead, to my great disappointment. Their distillery looks pretty much what you'd expect from a still in West Virginia, and they play up the country moonshiner angle as much as they can. The entire operation is rustic wood and low-slung cabin and barn construction, a far cry from the slick, industrialized-genteel kinds of places that you find in Kentucky. I cannot speak for anyone else, but I find the big distilleries a little impersonal, and therefore appreciate the smaller places. There are other reasons for this; buying two bottles of Jack Daniels, for instance, will make no difference, but buying two bottles of Isaiah Morgan (or Black Patch , or...) feels like you've helped keep someone in business. We picked up t...