Southern Crescent
Bourbon country, jazz cocktail rooms, and the birthplace of the cocktail.
The Southern Crescent runs from Miami's Art Deco coastline through New Orleans' French Quarter to the bourbon corridor of central Kentucky. Three cities, three drinking cultures, one through-line: this is where American cocktail history was made and where it is still being made now.
Each chapter has its own season. Miami in winter. New Orleans in early spring. Louisville in the week before the Derby. The route is built to be flown one chapter at a time, in the months when each city is at its most itself.
The first published chapter is Louisville. Miami and New Orleans follow.
Kentucky Air Mail
Four days through central Kentucky in the week before the Derby, the bourbon corridor from Louisville to Lexington, and the hotel bars that have been pouring Manhattans since the 1930s. The first published Clipper Route trip feature, reported from the ground in Derby week.
READ THE FEATURE →Louisville
The bourbon corridor, the Derby week ritual, and the hotel bars that have been pouring Manhattans since the 1930s.
READ THE CHAPTERNew Orleans
The French Quarter, the Sazerac, and the city that invented the cocktail.
COMING SOONMiami
Art Deco glamour, Latin heat, and a hotel scene becoming the most exciting in the Americas.
COMING SOON