A type of American whiskey made primarily from corn and aged in charred oak barrels; also refers to a European royal dynasty.
Named after Bourbon County, Kentucky, which was itself named after the French House of Bourbon. The whiskey connection came from the region where it was first produced in America.
Bourbon whiskey carries royal DNA in its name - it connects French aristocracy to American frontier ingenuity, showing how European place names traveled to the New World and became associated with distinctly American products.
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