SHELBYVILLE — The fifth of September is a special date for Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey. It’s a date that stretches across three centuries, on a journey to preserve the legacy of America's first ...

Behind CEO Fawn Weaver's whiskey brand is the story of Nearest Green, a formerly enslaved Black man fondly known as Uncle Nearest. Uncle Nearest was a pioneer of distilling Tennessee whiskey, and also ...

The owners don’t want to sell, but a $108 million loan is looming.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Before Jack Daniel reached national prominence, an enslaved man taught him all about whiskey, only to go centuries without being recognized. In an effort to ensure that ...

Uncle Nearest has added three new rye whiskeys to its permanent lineup. Nearest Green Distillery launched its first new, nationally available whiskey today. The whiskey, Uncle Nearest Straight Rye ...

Uncle Nearest is named after Nathan “Nearest” Green, the formerly enslaved man who is now recognized as teaching Jack Daniel to distill and is credited as being the first master distiller of his ...

Way back when Uncle Nearest was founded as a new distillery, I wrote a story about how founder Fawn Weaver was planning to establish a scholarship for the descendants of Nearest Green, acknowledged as ...

“I wish I had more brilliant forethought,” Fawn Weaver, founder and chief executive officer of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey, says of the company’s founding, “but it was more serendipitous.” That wasn ...

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Left: Nearest Green Whiskey bottle with signature. Right: Book "Love & Whiskey" by Fawn Weaver Weaver’s journey began with a 2016 New York Times headline: “Jack Daniel’s Embraces a Hidden Ingredient: ...

Uncle Nearest’s legendary lineup of whiskeys continues to grow with their latest release: rye. “Today, we continue celebrating the legacy of Nearest Green, the godfather of Tennessee whiskey, with the ...

Nearest Green Distillery is open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday-Saturday; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Distillery tour and tasting: 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday-Saturday; 11: ...