American Whiskey Magazine

SIPPING & SHARING

Sherrie Moore has had quite the interesting whiskey journey. Most recently you may know her as director of whiskey production for Uncle Nearest, yet Sherrie’s journey is one that shares a lineage with one of Tennessee whiskey’s most notable families and a career that kicks off in one of the most famous American distilleries.

I asked Sherrie to help me delve further into my cocktail personality series, trying to decipher how a cocktail can embody the essence of a person. When I first sat down with Sherrie, we began by discussing her first job at Jack Daniel’s Distillery in 1975. She worked in the visitor center at

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