Susan Reigler

Among award-winning writer Susan Reigler’s books are Kentucky Bourbon Country:The Essential Travel Guide; The Kentucky Bourbon Cocktail Book; The Bourbon Tasting Notebook; and most recently, Which Fork Do I Use with My Bourbon?:Setting the Table for Tastings, Food Pairings, Dinners, and Cocktail Parties.

From 1992 to 2005, Reigler was restaurant critic and beverage columnist for the Louisville Courier-Journal. Currently she is a contributing writer to Bourbon+, American Whiskey Magazine (for which she writes whiskey tasting notes and ratings), LEO Weekly and is bourbon columnist for Food & Dining. Reigler is past president of the Bourbon Women Association and has been featured in whiskey festivals throughout the United States, including in Chicago, New Orleans, Louisville, and Smithfield, Virginia. As of November 2019, she is president of the Kentucky chapter of Les Dames d’Escoffier International, an organization of women culinary professionals. She is a Certified Executive Bourbon Steward, a member of the Order of the Writ, and a graduate of Indiana and Oxford Universities.

Her other books are The American Whiskey Tasting Notebook, More Kentucky Bourbon Cocktails, Kentucky-Sweet & Savory, Kentucky (A Fodor's Compass American Guide), Adventures in Dining: Kentucky Bourbon Country, and The Complete Guide to Kentucky State Parks. She lives and writes in Louisville. You can contact her at susanreigler@gmail.com and visit her web page, www.susanreigler.com.