Beverage Notice August Wine Merchant, LLC, DBA August, with a mailing address of 325 West Main Street, Suite 106, Lexington, Kentucky 40507, hereby declares its intention to apply for a Quota Retail Package license and an NQ Retail Malt Beverage Package License no later than October 9, 2026. The business to be licensed will be located at 325 West Main Street, Suite 106, Lexington, Kentucky 40507. The sole member of August Wine Merchant, LLC is M2X Fund 1, LLC, a Kentucky limited liability company, 325 West Main Street, Suite 106, Lexington, Kentucky 40507, the sole member of which is M2X Holding Company, LLC, a Kentucky limited liability company, 325 West Main Street, Suite 106, Lexington, Kentucky 40507. The owners of M2X Fund 1 are Katheryn Kaufman, 325 West Main Street, Suite 106, Lexington, Kentucky 40507, Jason Zuliani, 325 West Main Street, Suite 106, Lexington, Kentucky 40507, and John Matthews, 325 West Main Street, Suite 106, Lexington, Kentucky 40507. Any person, association, corporation, or body politic may protest the approval of the license by writing the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 500 Mero Street 2NE33, Frankfort, Kentucky, 40601, within (30) days of the date of legal publication. IPL0377610 Sep 30 2026