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The Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame's 2026 Class Is Its Most Diverse Yet — and One Name Will Surprise You Every September, the bourbon industry gathers its legends, its lifers, and its rising voices to honor the people who have bent the arc of American whiskey history. This year, the Kentucky Distil

Nashville's Happenstance Whiskey Moves Into New Jersey With Fedway Associates There are a lot of bourbon brands chasing shelf space these days, but few doing it on the terms that Happenstance Whiskey has set for itself. Happenstance is a 100% women-owned whiskey company out of Nashville, Tennessee

Kentucky Bourbon Trail Hits 74 Stops: The Biggest Expansion Yet Reshapes America's Premier Whiskey Tourism Experience The Kentucky Bourbon Trail just got a whole lot longer. The Kentucky Distillers' Association announced this week that four new destinations have joined the legendary self-guided to

Washington Fires Back: The CANADA Act and the Fight to Reclaim America's Most Important Whiskey Market For more than sixteen months, a half-empty shelf at a Toronto LCBO has functioned as the most vivid symbol of a trade war that most bourbon drinkers never saw coming. Where Jack Daniel's and Mich

Where Barrel Char Meets Baseball Chalk: Whiskey Thief and the Louisville Bats Redefine What a Night at the Ballpark Can Be There are cities in America where bourbon is a backdrop — a regional quirk, a tourist trinket, something poured at the hotel bar and promptly forgotten. Louisville is not one

Russell's Reserve 13 Year Old Returns for Spring 2026 — and This One Is Personal Every so often, a bourbon release carries weight that goes beyond the liquid in the bottle. The Spring 2026 edition of Russell's Reserve 13 Year Old is one of those releases. It is a limited, highly anticipated tribut

An Instant Statement: Silverthorn Reserve Wins Two Double Golds at the 2026 San Francisco World Spirits Competition There is a particular kind of credibility that comes from blind judging — no label, no backstory, no marketing budget whispering in the ears of the panel. Just liquid in a glass. Tha

Sagamore Whiskey Takes Its High Rye Straight Bourbon Nationwide — And the Timing Could Not Be Better Baltimore's Sagamore Whiskey has spent more than a decade building its reputation as the loudest voice in the Maryland rye whiskey revival. Now the distillery is making a move that no one in the Am

Blanton's at Costco: How America's Most Coveted Bourbon Keeps Turning Up in the Last Place You'd Expect Walk into most liquor stores across the country and ask for Blanton's Single Barrel Bourbon, and you're likely to get one of two answers: a flat "we don't have it," or a price tag so inflated it

Redwood Empire's Screaming Titan Is California's Most Serious Argument for Wheated Bourbon California has never had much trouble commanding attention in the world of fermented grain, but whiskey is a different animal altogether. The state's wine culture is dominant, its craft beer scene is relentl