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LEXINGTON LURES LANDSCAPES, BOURBON & FANTASTIC FARE | STORY & PHOTOS BY PRISCILLA LISTER | Seth, bartender at The Blue Heron, will make you a bourbon cocktail that will make you glad you came here. Opposite: Rachel Alexandra, 9, is retired on Stonestreet Farm outside Lexington. The farm is owned by the late wine maker Jess Jackson’s family and will be among the new farms open for tours when Horse Country Inc. gets up and running 70 Wine Dine & Travel Summer/Fall 2015
The allure of Lexington has long been legendary "We felt ourselves as passengers through a wilderness just arrived at a garden where there was no forbidden fruit,” wrote Daniel Boone’s companion, Felix Walker, when they found Kentucky’s Bluegrass region in the late 1700s. This area was the first to be settled in Kentucky and was very early declared “The Athens of the West.” Transylvania University, the first college west of the Allegheny Mountains, was founded here in 1780. Today it is also home to the University of Kentucky. Prominent leaders of the 18th and 19th centuries had connections to Lexington, including Abraham Lincoln, Henry Clay and John C. Breckinridge, at 36 the youngest-ever Vice President of the U.S. under James Buchanan. George Clooney was born here. Johnny Depp, born nearby in Owensboro, bought a home for his mother in Lexington. And Jon Carloftis, Kentucky native and award-winning garden designer, recently sold his homes in Manhattan and Bucks County, PA, to return to Lexington where he and his partner, Dale Fisher, have restored the 1851 home known as Botherum in the historic Woodward Heights neighborhood. “The Lexington area has such a rich history nestled amongst the modern city that it has grown into; I think that’s why it’s so appealing,” said Carloftis, who graduated from UK in 1986. “It’s the perfect mix of fast-paced lifestyle and a slow and steady mindset. Part of that mindset, of course, is the bourbon making… In a day, you can tour several bourbon distilleries and then get back in town for a fine meal. You can’t do that anywhere else.” We did several things here you can’t do anywhere else. We also dined exceptionally well, visited America’s first commercial vineyard, and toured fascinating historic homes. Two of those things you can’t do anywhere else center on that very special blue grass. The fertile soil of the legendary Bluegrass Region lies on a massive limestone shelf that has been the bedrock of two remarkable pursuits here: thoroughbred horses and bourbon. The limestone adds calcium to that gorgeous green grass to promote strong bones in those horses, while that same limestone acts as a filtration system to purify the water that makes the best bourbon in the world. Lexington calls itself “The Horse Capital of the World.” Historic Keeneland Race Course, one of the most beautiful race tracks in the world, hosts live race meets every spring and fall. You can go there any morning, however, and watch those magnificent beauties train on the dirt track; be sure to have breakfast at the Keeneland Track Kitchen, a local tradition. October 30- 31, 2015, will find Keeneland hosting The Breeder’s Cup, “the richest two days in horse racing.” Keeneland’s annual sales auctions for thoroughbreds are the most prestigious in the world. Wine Dine & Travel Summer/Fall 2015 71
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