The Blind Barbour

Raleigh, North Carolina

A Raleigh bar at 3055 Medlin Drive with a whiskey list of more than 200 entries, led by bourbon and rye, with Scotch, Irish, Japanese and Canadian pours alongside. A separate Antique Spirits Collection lists bottles dated from 1927 to the late 1990s, most of them from the 1940s through the 1980s, from a 1927 Old Crow 11-year to a 1978 Fernet Branca. Tastings and live music fill the events calendar, and the bar takes private parties and tastings by email. It opens at five from Monday to Saturday, until midnight early in the week and until one on Friday and Saturday.