Sublimely expensive and delicious brown-liquor concoctions are as much a part of Kentucky Derby tradition as big floppy hats on overtanned ladies. This year’s $1000 julep, however, really sets a high bar for ingredient snootiness:
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↵- Turbinado raw-cane sugar made from 100 percent organic sugar cane grown in Brazil. This sugar provides a smooth, mellow and rounded flavor, perfect for the world's most exotic Mint Julep.
↵- A special Kentucky Colonel Mint from Louisville, KY which was grown in used Woodford Reserve Bourbon barrels.
↵- Ice made of water from a 10,000-year-old glacier in the far northern region of the Pacific Ocean near the Gulf of Alaska. This iceberg is by far the rarest and purest type of water on earth, pre-dating man and pollution.
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↵I’m only poking environmental fun at this because I can’t afford one, but if you can, do pony up (sorry): The exorbitant price tag helps to fund the University of Kentucky’s Barnstable Brown Diabetes and Obesity Center.
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