Just ask 'em and you will be "informed".
And they would be wrong. The Bourbon County of today is a fraction of it’s size when distilleries were first put into operation in Kentucky. All the big distilleries are not in Bourbon County. You can make bourbon anywhere as long as you stick to the recipe and age it in the prescribed manner. You can even make it in Tennessee, although they prefer to call what they make Tennessee whiskey, and they filter it through charcoal.
Jack might disagree. Pop. 161
Woodford Reserve Distillery is in Woodford County. Just off the McCracken Pike, over the Creek and through the woods. Splendid horse country, splendid bourbon. Tour the visitor center sometime, pick up some Distiller’s Select, and they’ll engrave a bottle with your name for two or three extra bucks.