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Kentucky Bourbon House

Bardstown, Kentucky
Proprietors
Colonel Michael Masters, “The Kentucky Bourbon Master”
Margaret Sue Masters, “The Kentucky Hostess”

 People from across America and from around the world
Come to the Kentucky Bourbon House 
Drink Kentucky Bourbon with The Colonel and
Dine upon the Southern cuisine and
Kentucky cooking of Margaret Sue.

The Colonel and Margaret Sue

Kentucky Bourbon House History
The Kentucky Bourbon House is located within Chapeze Mansion in Bardstown, Kentucky. This historic home was built in 1787 by Dr. Henri Chapeze one of fourteen French army officers to accompany Marquis Lafayette to America in 1777 to join General George Washington commanding the Continental Army. The following year France sided with America against the British and as a result America defeated the British, becoming an independent nation.

Dr. Henri Chapeze served in the Continental Army for the duration of the war, Dr. Chapeze was honored all the days of his life for his service to the American Revolution. Dr. Chapezecame to Bardstown in 1787, practiced medicine at Chapeze Mansion until 1810. His grandsons, Ben and Adam Chapeze founded the Chapeze Distillery in 1856 producing Old Charter Bourbon, a true ante-bellum Kentucky Bourbon giving Chapeze Mansion the name “Kentucky’s Home for Bourbon.”

Kentucky Bourbon House
at
Chapeze Mansion
“Kentucky’s Home for Bourbon”

Colonel Michael Masters, “The Kentucky Bourbon Master”

Come to the Kentucky Bourbon House in Bardstown, Kentucky to sample premium, ultra premium and rare Kentucky Bourbon with The Colonel.

Colonel Michael Masters - “The Kentucky Bourbon Master”

Margaret Sue, The Kentucky Hostess”

Come to the Kentucky Bourbon House in Bardstown, Kentucky to dine upon the renowned Southern cuisine and Kentucky cooking of Margaret Sue.  

Margaret Sue Masters - “The Kentucky Hostess”

Come to the Kentucky Bourbon House

Come to the Kentucky Bourbon House to drink Kentucky Bourbon with The Colonel. Dine upon the Southern cuisine and Kentucky cooking of Margaret Sue.

When you come to the Kentucky Bourbon House you will have the opportunity to sample sixty premium, ultra-premium and rare Kentucky Bourbons. The only thing that can make Kentucky Bourbon smooth is age. The Kentucky Bourbon House has a fine collection of old Kentucky Bourbon whiskies. Discovering these old Bourbons is highly entertaining and pleasurable.

Make your reservation for dinner. The dinner is Southern cuisine and Kentucky cooking. Our dinner is an abundance of food served on country platters. The desserts at the Kentucky Bourbon House are famous.

When you visit the Kentucky Bourbon House please introduce yourself to the proprietors of Kentucky Bourbon House-The Colonel and Margaret Sue.  The Kentucky Bourbon House staff-Rosemary, Amonda, Renee, Tony and the other Kentucky Bourbon House staff will want to know where you are from and hear about your experiences touring Kentucky. If you would like a photograph with any of the Kentucky personalities at the Kentucky Bourbon House please do not hesitate to ask.

The Colonel will have for sale copies of his acclaimed cookbook, Hospitality Kentucky Style and his autobiography in sixty-five short stories, The Making of a Kentucky Colonel. The Colonel will also have for sale copies of his posters, Derby Day, Kentucky BenedictionTasting Kentucky Bourbon.
and

If The Colonel is in town it would be his pleasure to autograph the books and posters you may wish to purchase.

Kentucky Bourbon House is located in the historic Chapeze Mansion on the east side of the old court house circle in downtown Bardstown, Kentucky.

Come to

Kentucky Bourbon House

Meet

The Colonel, “The Kentucky Bourbon Master”

Margaret Sue Masters, “The Kentucky Hostess”

Drink

Fine Aged Kentucky Bourbon

Dine

Upon Southern Cuisine and Kentucky cooking.

If you have not been to the Kentucky Bourbon House in Bardstown, Kentucky
you have been nowhere and you have done nothing.

Kentucky Bourbon House
Bourbons and Whiskies

at Chapeze House

107 East Stephen Foster, Bardstown, KY 40004