Fawn Weaver founded Uncle Nearest to honor the formerly enslaved master distiller who taught Jack Daniel the secret to making great whiskey. Seven years later, she owns the most successful Black-owned ...

In response to the ruling that her whiskey brand, Uncle Nearest, will be placed under a receivership, CEO Fawn Weaver took to social media to tell followers that she and the brand are still going ...

“I wish I had more brilliant forethought,” Fawn Weaver, founder and CEO of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey, says of the company’s founding, “but it was more serendipitous.” But that’s not the whole ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate Dingwall is a Toronto-based sommelier and drinks writer. Brown-Forman BF.B ’s Jack Daniel’s Distillery and the Nearest Green ...

Writer Fawn Weaver spent last year digging into the unknown story of Nearest Green, mentor of whiskey distiller Jack Daniels and, per her research, the U.S.'s first African-American master distiller.