Susan Reigler
| Bourbon Author & Journalist
Among award-winning writer Susan Reigler’s books are Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide (now in its 3rd edition), The Kentucky Bourbon Cocktail Book, The Bourbon Tasting Notebook, and The American Whiskey Tasting Notebook. Her newest, co-authored with Peggy Noe Stevens, is Which Fork Do I Use with My Bourbon? – Setting the Table for Tastings, Food Pairings, Dinner, and Cocktail Parties, was released in 2020.
From 1992 to 2005, Reigler was the 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), and is bourbon columnist for Food & Dining and Covey Rise magazines.
Among the media outlets in which she has been quoted as a whiskey expert are NPR, Forbes, GQ, VinePair.com, Business Insider, The Guardian, and Frankfurter Rundschau. She has also been a frequent judge for craft spirits competitions and bourbon cocktail contests.
Reigler is past president of the Bourbon Women Association and has hosted tastings and been featured in whiskey festivals throughout the United States, including in Chicago, New Orleans, Savannah, Seattle, Louisville, and Smithfield, Virginia. She is currently 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.