Description
Uncle Nearest, based in Shelbyville, Tennessee, has been the most-awarded whiskey brand of the past three years (it took home just under 200 honors in 2021, according to a press release). That’s an incredible accomplishment for a company that only launched in 2017. It’s also the best-selling African-American owned and founded spirits brand ever.
With every blend of Uncle Nearest, fifth generation Nearest Green descendant and our master blender, Victoria Eady Butler, selects a barrel she believes to be the most spectacular of the batch and sets it aside. For the first time ever, these select barrels have been blended together to create our most perfect blend. Known as the “Godfather of Tennessee Whiskey,” Nearest Green was the world’s first known African American master distiller.
