Recent News

Yamazaki 25 Years Old Claims Fourth Straight ISC Trophy as Suntory Locks Up Japanese Whisky Producer of the Year — Again There are dominant performances in sports, in music, in art — and then there are the kind of sustained runs that stop feeling like competition and start feeling like inevitabili

When Two Legacies Converge: Hibiki's 2026 Chiso Kimono Collaboration Signals a New Chapter for Japanese Whisky There is a particular kind of patience embedded in the finest things Japan produces — a willingness to let time do the heavy lifting, to trust that precision applied over centuries will y

Laphroaig 15-Year-Old Is Back — And This Time, It's Not Going Anywhere For years, Laphroaig fans in the United States had to make a choice they shouldn't have had to make: settle for the distillery's iconic 10-Year-Old or make a significant financial leap to the 18-Year-Old. The middle ground — a 15

James B. Beam Distilling Co. Is Reinventing Clermont — and the Numbers Back It Up Something significant is happening on a stretch of Happy Hollow Road in Clermont, Kentucky, about 25 miles south of Louisville. The James B. Beam Distilling Co. — the campus where Jim Beam has been made for more than t

Aceo Spirits Pushes Smoky Scot Beyond Islay with a New Orkney Release That Rewrites What Island Peat Can Do For most American whisky drinkers who have found their way into the smoke-laced world of Scottish single malt, "peated Scotch" and "Islay" are essentially synonymous terms. The heavily pheno

The World's Oldest Whisky Just Dropped — And It Comes Wrapped in a Daniel Arsham Sculpture There are landmark releases in the whisky industry, and then there are moments that rewrite the record books entirely. The Balvenie's new Eighty-Eight-Year-Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky belongs to the latter

Ten Years, One Cask, One Estate: Arbikie Finally Releases Its First Single Malt Scotch Whisky There are distilleries that release a single malt because it's on the roadmap. There are distilleries that release one because the accountants need a flagship. And then there's Arbikie Highland Estate Dis

The Balvenie 88-Year-Old: How a Single Cask Survived Nearly a Century to Become the World's Oldest Scotch On March 5, 1931, a distillery worker at The Balvenie in Dufftown, Scotland, made a routine entry in the handwritten production ledger. European oak sherry butt cask #239, sourced from Jerez,

Hibiki 12 Year Old Is Back — But You'll Need a Boarding Pass to Get One Eleven years is a long time to wait for a whisky. Long enough that the bottles sitting in the back of liquor store shelves became collector's relics. Long enough that secondary market prices climbed to absurd heights. Long eno

Frey Ranch's Tractor Tailgate Club: A $999 Members-Only Portal Into Nevada's Most Authentic Whiskey Farm When a whiskey distillery announces a $999-a-year membership club , there are two ways to read it. One is as another premium-tier gimmick dressed up in exclusive packaging. The other is as the