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The End of an Era: Manhattan's Only Whiskey Distillery Shuts Its Doors It took more than a century to bring legal whiskey distilling back to Manhattan, and just five years to lose it again. Great Jones Distilling Co., the landmark operation that reclaimed a piece of New York's pre-Prohibition iden

The End of an Experiment: GlenWyvis Distillery, the World's First Community-Owned Whisky Producer, Collapses into Administration When GlenWyvis Distillery first opened its doors in the Scottish Highlands a decade ago, it was celebrated as proof that a different kind of spirits business was possibl

Inside the Decade-Long Bet That Built the World's First Andean Single Malt Whisky In 2013, two Argentine brothers drove into the wine country of Mendoza with a plan that sounded, to most people in the spirits world, somewhere between ambitious and reckless. When brothers Cristian and Gabriel Willi

A New Tool Built for the Small Guys in a Big Industry Running a craft distillery is not for the faint of heart. Between permits, aging barrels, and trying to get a bottle onto a liquor store shelf next to the big national brands, small distillers rarely have time to dig through spreadsheets and ma

The Foreclosure of LF Heritage and What It Says About an Industry in Trouble The American bourbon industry has been riding a wave of prestige and premium pricing for years, but the cracks are starting to show — and they're getting harder to ignore. The latest sign of trouble comes out of Scott Cou

The bourbon world is buzzing after spirits giant Sazerac quietly maneuvered to take control of Garrard County Distilling Co., a high-profile Kentucky distillery that never really got off the ground before collapsing into financial ruin. Sazerac, the New Orleans-based company behind some of the

Chilco River Holdings has officially entered the bourbon market with its purchase of Mr. Cliff's Premium Spirits, marking what the company calls a foundational step in a broader expansion plan set to unfold over the coming years. The transaction, which closed recently, makes Mr. Cliff's a wholl

After more than a decade of producing handcrafted spirits in San Antonio, Artisan Craft Distillery is closing its doors permanently on January 25. The announcement marks another casualty in an increasingly difficult economic landscape for small-scale American distillers. The distillery broke th

The dream of building a bourbon empire has come crashing down for one Kentucky distillery, as Luca Mariano Distillery in Danville finds itself locked in bankruptcy proceedings with more than $34 million in debt hanging over its head. The facility, which represented the kind of ambition that has

The Kentucky Bourbon Trail (KBT), a hallmark of Bourbon tourism, has expanded to 60 destinations, providing visitors worldwide with more opportunities to explore the rich heritage of Kentucky Bourbon. This milestone marks a significant growth in Bourbon tourism and offers economic benefits to comm