Whiskey Business

The Passion Economy by Sony Music

Sep 16, 202042:03Business

Fawn Weaver went to Lynchburg, Tennessee to write a book about the former slave who taught Jack Daniels how to make whiskey. It was that trip that inspired her to launch a wildly successful whiskey brand, Uncle Nearest P...

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