SouthBound Replay: Fawn Weaver builds a whiskey empire from a long-forgotten story




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Summary: This week on SouthBound, we’re replaying Tommy Tomlinson's conversation from 2020 with Fawn Weaver. Weaver founded the Nearest Green distillery in Tennessee in honor of a Black distiller who helped Jack Daniel develop his famous whiskey. Weaver talks about how she went from reading a story about Green to bottling a whiskey called Uncle Nearest.