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Bourbon is patient. It waits. It listens. And inside the dark silence of rickhouses live the whispers that built legends. In Season Three of Bourbon: Legends from the Trail, host and longtime bourbon guide Travis Hounshell steps off the polished tour paths and into the forgotten corners of bourbon country — where vanished distilleries, buried rivalries, outlaw ambition, and quiet acts of brilliance shaped the whiskey we know today. This season uncovers a bourbon empire so dominant it forced every competitor into checkmate before disappearing without a trace, a whiskey exiled from America for forty years before roaring back to life, and the unlikely decision that saved an industry when the world had turned its back on bourbon. For the first time, the true origin story of bourbon tourism is revealed — a husband and wife whose vision would later be credited by Bill Samuels Jr. as the spark that changed the trail forever. These are stories rarely told, never recorded, and finally ready to speak. Season Three begins January 26. Listen closely — bourbon remembers.

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