Waynes Wine & Liquor

Love the selection! If they don’t have what you’re looking for, they can order it for you. Great service too.

Had just visited Graceland. We pulled off the highway to get some provisions en route back to Nashville. My secondary mission in the south after seeing the king, was to score the elusive confederate concoction known in underground real man circles as Rebel Yell. Looked all over the Cleve for it. Ventured as far south as Canton (because up our way, everyone knows that all of Ohio south of Akron is technically Kentucky). No dice. As with most of my stupid quests, I could have just bought it online. But that sure takes the fun out of life don’t it? So anyhow, I tried my luck in here. I went down the aisles with the eagle eye of a true alcoholic trying to find it. I came up empty handed. Dejected, I schlepped over to the register in a pointless attempt to maybe see if anyone in the world had even heard of the stuff besides me and some old Lake County Ohio drunks who hipped me to it. The friendly southern gent asked a friendly southern lady stocker if they had «Rebel Yell». It sounds so stupid when you ask for it. She took me right to it. I had, in my Elvis exhaustion, overlooked it. FINALLY! I had it right in my clutches!
A couple of facts: it is pretty much a regular ass bourbon. We passed the distillery in Louisville on the way home. It is mentioned in a 1973 Nazareth song. And that’s pretty much the only reason I wanted it. Now the circumstances surrounding me finally procuring it make it taste that much better. Thank you to Wayne’s for capping off a spectacular trek to Dixie. They also have like a shitload of other good booze. But seriously, everyone try some Rebel Yell.