Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021)

For today's show, we're running a favorite of ours from our archives. This is the story of Fawn Weaver and how she built a fascinating brand with an amazing life story to go with it. Enjoy. If you walk into any type of liquor store, if you walk into any restaurant, any back bar, and you ask them a very simple question. Tell me what whiskier bourbon is on your back bar that represents someone who is not a white male. and just wait.

Wow. White males represent thirty percent of this country and a hundred percent. Of the whiskeys up until Uncle Nerest. One hundred percent From NPR, it's how I built this.

Show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and stories behind the movements. Don't I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Fawn Weaver stumbled onto a piece of southern history that she couldn't forget and built a brand around it. Uncle Nearest Premium Whisky.

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