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For over a decade, the bottle sitting on the shelf at your local liquor store told you something. It said craft. It said Pacific Northwest. It said this isn't the same whiskey your father drank. Now, Woodinville Whiskey is telling that story even louder with a redesigned bottle that hits retailer

Most people walk into Costco expecting to load up a cart with bulk paper towels, a rotisserie chicken, and maybe a flat of sparkling water. What they don't expect is to stumble across one of the rarest bottles of whiskey on the planet sitting on a shelf between the snack packs and the wine display.

There are places in American whiskey history that don't just make bourbon — they shape it. The Deatsville campus in Kentucky is one of those places, and after decades of quietly doing its job, it's getting ready to take a bow. Heaven Hill Distillery is sending it off the right way, with a limited-e

For the first time in 15 years, Johnnie Walker is adding a permanent new expression to its lineup in the United States — and it's one that's aimed squarely at the millions of American drinkers who've long called bourbon their spirit of choice. The new bottle, Johnnie Walker Black Cask Blended Scotc

For a long time, the word "blended" has been something close to an insult in American whiskey circles. Mention a blended whiskey at the wrong bar and you might get a raised eyebrow. The assumption, fair or not, is that blended means watered down, stretched out with cheap neutral grain spirit, somet

There's a distillery sitting in Austin, Texas, that a lot of people outside the whiskey world haven't heard of yet. That's about to change. Still Austin Whiskey Co. just put up numbers that would make even the most seasoned bourbon veterans do a double take, and the story behind how they got here i

Twenty years ago, Heaven Hill Distillery did something that most of the whiskey world wasn't expecting. They released Bernheim Original Kentucky Straight Wheat Whiskey — a spirit built around soft winter wheat instead of the rye that had long defined American whiskey flavor profiles. It was a quiet

For two decades, whisky lovers have been asking the same question every time they cracked open a bottle of Ardbeg Ten Year Old — why isn't there a cask strength version of this thing? It seemed like such an obvious move. The standard Ten is already one of the most talked-about single malt Scotches

There are distilleries that rush their product to market, and then there are places like Hard Truth Distilling Co. out of Nashville, Indiana. The difference shows up in the glass. On February 28, Hard Truth dropped three new limited releases that have been a long time coming — and that phrase a

Barrell Craft Spirits has never been a company that plays it safe. Since its founding in Louisville, Kentucky back in 2013, the independent blender has built a reputation for pushing what American whiskey can be — not by distilling the same old recipe year after year, but by hunting down exceptiona