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Frey Ranch's Harvester Series: Third Harvest Brings Triticale — a Wheat-Rye Hybrid — Into the American Whiskey Conversation When most whiskey drinkers conjure the image of a grain field, they think of corn stretching to the horizon across Kentucky or Indiana, maybe winter rye waving in the October

Two Years of Red Ink: William Grant & Sons Posts Another Profit Decline as the Global Spirits Slump Deepens For the second consecutive year, William Grant & Sons — one of the last great family-owned distilling empires on earth — has reported a significant drop in both revenue and profit. The

Space Puffin: The Scottish-Japanese Mission That Could Rewrite How Whisky Ages There is a moment in every serious whisky drinker's life when the question stops being about what's in the glass and starts being about how it got there — the years in the cask, the chemistry of wood and spirit, the slo

The New World Whisky Boom: How Non-Traditional Producers Are Building Passionate, Loyal Followings in America and Beyond For most of the twentieth century, the whisky map was drawn in pencil by a handful of nations — Scotland, Ireland, Kentucky, and Tennessee — and almost nobody dared redraw it. Tha

Heaven Hill Taps Earthbound Brands as Exclusive Licensing Agency, Signaling a New Chapter for Its Storied Portfolio Heaven Hill Brands, the Bardstown, Kentucky-based titan of American spirits, has made a significant move beyond the barrel. The company has named Earthbound Brands as its exclusive lic

Inside Kythe Distillery: The Highland Project Chasing a Flavor That Modern Scotland Forgot Somewhere in the rolling farmland outside Blairgowrie, Perthshire, a wood fire is burning under a copper pot still. It is not a romantic affectation. It is not a marketing stunt. It is, according to the thre

Diageo Rewrites the Recipe on the World's Biggest Whisky If you've spent any time following global whisky trends, you already know that India is no sideshow. It is the main event. And right at the center of that story — arguably at the center of the entire worldwide whisky story, by sheer volume — s

Johnnie Walker Blue Label's Indian Festive Blend: A New Kind of Scotch for a New Kind of Market For most of its 200-plus-year history, Scotch whisky has been a product that traveled one direction. Scotland made it, and the rest of the world received it — often in the same bottle, with the same liqui

Scotland's West Coast Is Getting a New Craft Distillery — and the Story Behind It Is More Interesting Than You Think On September 25, 2026, a quiet but significant decision was handed down in Argyll, Scotland. Argyll and Bute Council granted planning permission to transform a former oil depot on Ard

A Trade War Poured Neat: How the U.S.-Canada Alcohol Standoff Is Reshaping the Spirits Industry The trade relationship between the United States and Canada has weathered plenty of storms over the decades, but few fights have landed as personally — or as commercially — as the one now playing out acro