About BourbonTown Tours: Private Bourbon Tours Run from Louisville
Updated November 2026 · BourbonTown Tours
BourbonTown Tours is a private bourbon tour company based in Louisville, Kentucky, with 3,000+ private tours since 2012 behind it. We build each day around one booked group: you say which distilleries interest you and which city you are sleeping in, we set the running order, book your distillery tickets, reserve the lunch table and put a guide and a vehicle on the road for your group. There is no shared schedule to join and no seat to buy on somebody else's itinerary. Guests are collected at their hotel or their door in Louisville, Bardstown or Lexington.
What people actually book
Almost every group that books with us books a custom private tour: a full day at the distilleries they chose, with the tickets, the vehicle, the guide and the lunch reservation handled for them. The rate for that day is $275 to $425 per person depending on group size, plus 6% KY sales tax and a 3% booking fee, and it covers everything except lunch and driver gratuity. Two other formats exist, and both are a small share of the work. Transportation only is the vehicle and the driver set against an itinerary the group has already written, billed by the hour with a four-hour minimum, with distillery tickets and lunch on the guest. The Barrel Crawl is tastings only, no distillery tours, at a lower per-person rate, with a minimum of four guests. Both stay on the list because they answer a real request.
Why private is the only format we run
A day can be built to suit one group, or it can be built to suit nobody in particular, and we only sell the first kind.
Put two parties in one vehicle and there is a single running order, a single pace and a single set of stops, so at least one party spends its day on a plan it did not pick. When the booking belongs to one group, every decision inside it answers to that group: which distilleries, in what order, how long to stand at each, how early to start and when to call it a day. Nobody is added to a booking after it is made, and we do not hold seats back to fill a vehicle. The price is quoted per person for your group rather than per seat on a route, and the per-person figure falls as the headcount rises. Custom private bourbon tours sets out how one of these days gets designed, and private versus group bourbon tours weighs the two formats side by side.
Who you deal with, by role
You deal with two sets of people: guides and a booking team.
Guides are out on the distillery circuit every week, and the job is to teach you bourbon: what is in the glass, how it was made, and why one stop is worth two hours and another is not.
The booking team takes your dates and your headcount, builds the itinerary around them, books distillery tickets once your tour is confirmed and confirms every reservation in the itinerary that comes back to you. The lunch table is booked and confirmed the same way.
A real person answers 1-844-BOURBON, so a question about a date does not sit in a queue. We reply the same day between 8 AM and 8 PM Eastern. Requests after 8 PM get a reply the next morning.
BourbonTown Tours has been under its current ownership since 2023.
Where we operate
We are a service-area business, so we come to you: the vehicle arrives at your hotel or your door in Louisville, Bardstown or Lexington. Airport pickup can be arranged.
The distilleries themselves sit in five driving clusters: Louisville; Bardstown and beyond; Frankfort and Versailles; Lawrenceburg; Lexington. How much driving sits between the stops, rather than how far apart they look on a map, is what limits a day, and our bourbon tour planning guide works that through. The full roster of what we visit, cluster by cluster, is on the Kentucky bourbon distilleries directory, and each pickup city has a page of its own: private bourbon tours from Louisville, private bourbon tours from Bardstown and private bourbon tours from Lexington.
How we work, and where the detail sits
A tour day runs 6 to 8 hours. Custom tours typically run three stops, and we can add or subtract on your planning call. The fleet behind that is four vehicles, an Audi A8 sedan, a GMC Yukon Denali SUV, a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van and Ford Transit vans, and which one turns up follows the headcount. The rest of the detail sits on the page that owns it:
- Price by group size, the 6% KY sales tax and the 3% booking fee: a full guide to Kentucky bourbon tour costs.
- What the quoted rate carries, and what stays with you: what every private tour includes.
- The four vehicles and how many guests each one seats: our bourbon tour vehicle fleet.
- The questions people ask before they book: answers to common bourbon tour questions.
- Photos from past tours: our tour gallery.
Groups over 14 travel in multiple vehicles or a bus or motor coach we contract.
Preston was wonderful. He shared some interesting facts and information along the way, as well as some great recommendations for the rest of our stay in Louisville. He planned the perfect itinerary for our day in bourbon country!
My group had a great experience with BourbonTown Tours from start to finish! From speaking and emailing with Ron to get our transportation and itinerary ironed out, to spending the day with our driver, Reid.
Our coordination leading up to our tour was great, communication was great. Our driver Tommy was professional, knowledgeable, and punctual. Would absolutely recommend them and use them in the future.
Tell us what you want the day to be
Send your dates and your headcount, name any distillery your group already has in mind, and we will draw the day up and price it for that exact number. If it is easier said than typed, call 1-844-BOURBON or use our contact page.